Re: MIME composition (was: Storing the group a message has been written to)

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Wes Hardaker <wjhardaker@ucdavis.edu> writes:

> I'd hate to have to parse the text above to figure out when to put in
> parts hidden below, and stuff.

The user shouldn't have to think about this at all.  The user taps,
`C-c C-a cindy.gif RET', and that's it.  Everything else is done with
smoke and mirrors.

> Plus, narrowing should be a *user* feature that you'd be removing from 
> their power by narrowing the buffer for them.  (If they narrowed the
> buffer around a paragraph of theirs, and then hit C-c C-c, what do you 
> do?  What if they narrow then un-narrow thus exposing all your junk at 
> the end?  Confuse-a-user-R-us?

Exposing the junk at the end would do no harm to the user interface,
but it might be confusing.  The same could be said of other narrowing
modes, like tar mode and info mode.  (Although one doesn't really edit
much there, so they are a bit different, I guess.)

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