Re: `b'

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

Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> écrit:

> > > C-d is not well-designed in comparison to other MIME viewers out
> > > there.  I've written about this before.

> Also, C-d is already too overloaded -- it attempts to do all kinds of
> things with the messages.  Adding tree-like MIME display looks like
> one too much to me.

Is that really an argument?  If `C-d' does not have a meaning for MIME
messages, I see no problem that it gets one.  The `nndoc' concept, per
definition, should be able to do many intelligent things, not only one.

> In a true MIME-viewing mode, `o' should save only the message body, one
> should be able to access the unhacked headers, uuencoded messages should
> work just like they do with regular buttons, etc.  [...]  I'd like for
> instance `o' to save the messages without the (bogus) headers.  I would
> also prefer headers not to be inherited and shown.

`C-d' does not attempt to trigger a MIME-viewing mode.  It only generates
full, complete, valid messages representing useful subtrees of the MIME tree
for a single original message.  You then use any command able to manoeuvre
_full_ messages on subtrees.  Here, `o' does not get specially overloaded,
and has no reason to be.  It means what it always meant for full messages.

If you imply that `C-d' is meant for other things it was really meant for,
then of course, it is likely that it was not well designed to do them.

> For the latter, I'd like the code to use the existing Gnus MIME engine
> (the mm-* stuff), so that it works for uuencoded files, etc.

I think, I may be biased (:-), that `C-d' does its job well, and even, that
the code is not so badly written.  Maybe it could do better now using `mm-*'
stuff?  Such `mm-*' did not exist at the time `C-d' became able to split
MIME parts, and `C-d' has most probably not been reevaluated since then.
You say that using `mm-*' will give us `uuencoded' parts?  Anything else?

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