From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/24936 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois_Pinard?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: C-d displays duplicated parts Date: 28 Aug 1999 12:06:00 -0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035162415 11416 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:06:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:06:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA05254 for ; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 12:08:43 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAB03018; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 11:08:25 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 28 Aug 1999 11:08:31 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA25311 for ; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 11:08:20 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from jupiter.rtsq.qc.ca (rtsq.grics.qc.ca [199.84.132.81]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA05231 for ; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 12:07:32 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from ariel.progiciels-bpi.ca by jupiter.rtsq.qc.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA26905; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 12:06:58 -0400 Original-Received: from iro.umontreal.ca (uucp@localhost) by ariel.progiciels-bpi.ca (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI) via UUCP id MAA26790; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 12:10:12 -0700 Original-Received: from titan.progiciels-bpi.ca.progiciels-bpi.ca by icule.progiciels-bpi.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA01155; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 12:06:07 -0400 Original-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) X-Face: "b_m|CE6#'Q8fliQrwHl9K,]PA_o'*S~Dva{~b1n*)K*A(BIwQW.:LY?t4~xhYka_.LV?Qq `}X|71X0ea&H]9Dsk!`kxBXlG;q$mLfv_vtaHK_rHFKu]4'<*LWCyUe@ZcI6"*wB5M@[m 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