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Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:

> > How does TM navigate through the multipart/mixed messages?
> 
> You use the command "v" (for "view") in the summary buffer, which puts 
> you in the buttonized article buffer, where you can skip backwards and
> forwards between message parts, by using "p" and "n".
> 
> When you're standing on a message part, "x" will save the contents to
> a file, after decoding any CTE, and "v" will play it using an external 
> method.

Is this satisfactory?  I'd really like not to leave the summary
buffer, but I don't quite see how...

> > Ooh.  multipart/alternative.  It's not handled exactly the same way as 
> > multipart/mixed, which is obviously not good, but I can't visualize
> > how this is supposed to look with the current buttonized scheme.
> 
> How about a menu, or some way of cycling through the alternatives when
> you're standing on top of a buttonized message part?

A menu, and a keystroke to cycle sounds like good ideas, but how is
the user to be told that there are alternative parts?  In the article
buffer mode line?

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen