Re: Gnus and Emacs 20.3 and MIME

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

Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:

> Here are some of mine:

All these desiderata are quite sensible.  One thing looks more difficult
for those using Emacs instead of XEmacs:

>  - I would like to view images (JPEG, GIF, PNG) inline in the message

Emacs 20.5 should have inlined pictures, but it would be fun to find some
solution for Emacs users, before we get there.

> The one thing in my "functional requirements" that cannot be handled
> this way, is the stuff surrounding HTML and multipart/alternative.

I presume the best bet is automatically using the richest format possible
in a given environment, or at least, have user options stating preferences.
Manual intervention could be required to alter the choice (a bit like there
are washing commands to alter presentation after the fact, even if these
commands are hook-able), but I would not say that having such commands for
selection among alternative MIME parts would make Gnus less interesting.
All the contrary: it's better having a choice than none.  Yet, selection
among alternative parts should be automated by default.

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