Imroving deleting/stripping MIME parts (was: Not prompting user in gnus-mime-delete-part and)

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Sat, Aug 27 2005, Dan Christensen wrote:

> While we're discussing this function, it would be nice if point
> stayed in the *Article* buffer after this was complete, making
> it easier to tab to the next MIME part and strip it.

I agree that stripping/deleting several parts with Gnus is painful.
I've implemented (but not yet committed) some improvements in this
area:

,----[ C-h v gnus-auto-advance-part RET ]
| gnus-auto-advance-part's value is 1
| 
| Advance to next MIME part when deleting or stripping parts.
| 
| When 0, point will be placed on the same part as before.  When
| positive (negative), move point forward (backwards) this many
| parts.  When nil, redisplay article.
`----

With this value, you can delete several parts by using `d' repeatedly.

Additionally I'd like to add `K O' (gnus-article-save-part-and-strip)
and `K d' (gnus-article-delete-part) making it easier to strip or
delete parts using a prefix argument:

,----[ C-h f gnus-article-save-part-and-strip RET ]
| gnus-article-save-part-and-strip is an interactive Lisp function [...].
| (gnus-article-save-part-and-strip n)
| 
| Save MIME part n and replace it with an external body.
| n is the numerical prefix.
`----

,----[ C-h f gnus-article-delete-part RET ]
| gnus-article-delete-part is an interactive Lisp function [...].
| (gnus-article-delete-part n)
| 
| Delete MIME part n and add some information about the removed part.
| n is the numerical prefix.
`----

A function like `gnus-summary-save-parts' (`X m', `<MIME> <Extract all
parts...>') but with stripping would also be nice.

Bye, Reiner.
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