Re: Not prompting user in gnus-mime-delete-part and

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

On Mon, Aug 29 2005, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:

>>>>>> In <v93bou5ir0.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> Reiner Steib wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Aug 28 2005, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:
>
>>> That message is an excuse to the function not being perfect, and
>>> there's not much likelihood that it will be completed.
>>> It will simply not work or really break articles if they have
>>> complex MIME structure, e.g., the case that a part is in a
>>> forwarded forwarded message.
>
>> Does the `mm-complicated-handles'-check cover all those cases?
>
> Yes, maybe.  (Although my worry is that it may also return `t'
> even for some MIME structure which won't cause a problem, it
> might be a needless fear since most of MIME composers cannot
> make such a complex structure.

Would it make sense to allow deleting/stripping despite of
"complicated handles" after an additional prompt instead of "giving
up"?

>> We could put a warning into the doc strings and the manual.
>
> I agree.

Would you like to add the warnings?

>> How about using the `gnus-expert-user' approach for
>> `gnus-mime-delete-part' and getting rid of the prompt completely for
>> `gnus-mime-save-part-and-strip'?
>
> I agree to do so, 

I've installed it.

> assuming those who set `gnus-expert-user' know what they do.

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