Re: C-d displays duplicated parts

["François Pinard" <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Vladimir Volovich <vvv@vvv.vsu.ru> writes:

> > shows only the attached rfc822 message. it seems that this is enough, :)
> > and the line
> > 
> > R      [  31: Himanshu Gohel      ] <2 rfc822> Mailbox
> > 
> > is not necessary: each message/rfc822 attachment is represented with
> > two lines, which seems wrong.

> Well -- it's meant to be that way, so it's right.  :-)

This was a long time ago, I might not remember everything clearly.  I think
the choice was between showing only the <rfc822> line, and forcing the user
to do another `C-d' to _enter_ it, or trying to immediately serve him, and
simulate a recursive `C-d' right away, rather seamlessly integrated with
the rest.  But then, if the quoted message happens to be a complex one,
we need some way, at the dissection level, to discriminate the passage
from one message into another, so the quoted message is first announced,
then sub-analysed.  So, you see, it is not fully seamless.  It should not be.

Remember, `C-d' is not for MIME presentation.  Gnus has much more convenient
and sophisticated machinery for doing that.  It's merely for debugging
the MIME as received, or when wanting to intimately operate on MIME parts,
independently of the viewing intent behind MIME, which may be very different.

-- 
François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard