Re: Latest cvs attachements have no button, appear inline

[Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de>]

On Fri, Jan 02 2004, Harry Putnam wrote:

> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
>
>> I'm not sure what the recipient got but I wanted them to get an
>> attachment, not an inline document.

See below.

> With a little more testing I see there are two choice at the 
> `disposition' prompt one gets when using C-c C-a (`mml-attach-file')
> Apparently the default is `inline' but I think that may have happened
> somewhat recently.

Correct:

2003-12-30  Reiner Steib  <Reiner.Steib@gmx.de>
[...]
	* mml.el (mml-minibuffer-read-disposition): New function.
	(mml-attach-file): Use it.

IMHO it makes sense to offer a choice for the disposition (apart from
editing the mml tags).

> Since we already have C-x i to insert files inline, 

Note that this is not the same, since it gives just plain inline text,
whereas an attachment with disposition "inline" is still a separate
MIME part.  The recipient (or his MUA) may choose how to display it.
The disposition is only a recommendation.

> wouldn't it make sense to default to `attachment'.  That's almost
> always what I would want when attaching something.  Or maybe its
> configurable.  But still `attachemnt' seems to be a sensible
> default.

I introduced `mml-minibuffer-read-disposition' because I often changed
"attachment" to "inline".  ;-)

The default choice depends on the content-type:

		      (if (string-match "^text/.*" type)
			  "inline"
			"attachment")

Maybe I should make the "^text/.*" regexp customizable?  WDYT?  (We
already have `mm-inline-media-tests', `mm-inlined-types' and so on for
_viewing_.  But I don't think we should use the same preferences for
composing.)

Bye, Reiner.
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