Re: Song of Programming

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Before that, I'll be answering mail and stuff, but are there any
> particular outstanding issues that should be resolved before going
> beta and freezing features?  (Except fixing the usual bugs?)

IMVHO the interface for `v' on a MIME button is rather awful :-|
Excuse me if I use such strong words.

OT1H it pretends to have completion (SPC tries to complete), OTOH it
requires you to enter stuff like "xv %s" for viewing.

The easy way to fix this is to turn off completion for entering the
right commands.  A possibly better way to fix this is to let the user
enter the MIME type and to choose the corresponding viewing command.

Maybe the best is to offer both: one command which says `view this
part normally but pretend it has a different content type' (this would
be useful for mails received from broken mailers which are unable to
supply a meaningful content type), and another command which allows
the user to specify the viewing command completely, even if nothing
like it is in the .mailcap file (this would be useful if one normally
uses ee to view images but wants to use xv for a specific image).  Or
would it be better to offer a command like ! in dired?  (There, you
just enter the command and the file name is tacked on at the end.  If
necessary, you can put * somewhere in the command, which is replaced
by the file name.)

kai
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