Re: C-d displays duplicated parts

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

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) écrit:

> Anybody got that explanation from François?

Please don't take me too seriously, even if if I look like having opinions.
(People without opinions are boring, people being nothing but opinions
are unbearable.  Worse is that some receive opinions as deadly missiles :-).

`C-d' is useful to dissect a MIME message for analysis, and if it might
be improved, so be it.  But this is a very secondary matter, in practice.
It was meant, at the very earliest stages of MIME support in Gnus, as a
tool so Lars and developers could study the structure of existing MIME
messages, but maybe more importantly, as a way to remove in advance the
encumbrance of many concerns which traditionally plagued other MIME readers,
prohibiting these to get a clear grasp of what should really be done.

The MIME viewer in Gnus is already quite satisfying as it stands, and so
far that I understand things, is much in the spirit of the MIME designer.
The worse dangers being discarded by now, `C-d' has played its main role.
I would surely not object that it evolves into something a bit different,
and moreover, this is Lars who decides.  Maybe he might accept patches?  Yet,
my feeling is that it is not really worth working much on `C-d'.  Rather,
instead, one should build nice things using the more recent Gnus MIME API.

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