Re: MIME->MML

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

François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> Could we have something, I do not know, maybe like `C-u C-c C-a',
> that would say `Attach buffer: ' instead of `Attach file: '?  With proper
> completion, of course?

Sure.  But I think we probably should have a more extensive range of
MML insertion commands, move them to mml.el and put them on a common
MML keymap.  And then `M-m f' (or whatever) would attach a file,
`M-m b' a buffer, and, er, I'm sure there should be more commands, but 
I can't think of any at the moment.  Uhm.  Oh -- `M-m m' to insert a
multipart, and `M-m p' to insert a part.  `M-m v' to verify that the
MML in the buffer is correct?

But `M-m' is taken, I guess.

> MIME is not a perfect thing, yet in practice nowadays, it is the way to go.

Yes.  I'm quite surprised at how workable MIME is turning out to be.
I mean, MIME may not be pretty or anything, but it can be made to
work, and you can do useful stuff with it.  And I didn't think that
was the case.

It seems that other MIME implemetators haven't really gotten beyond
their natural aversion to the stuff, though.  :-)

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