From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/23876 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Song of Programming Date: 06 Jul 1999 00:37:34 +0200 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=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035161529 5007 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:52:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:52:09 +0000 (UTC) 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 SAA19465 for ; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 18:38:51 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAB08261; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 17:38:36 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 05 Jul 1999 17:39:26 -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 RAA14174 for ; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 17:39:17 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.4.42]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA19450 for ; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 18:38:13 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from petty.cs.uni-dortmund.de (petty.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.20.161]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with SMTP id AAA05731 for ; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 00:37:36 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: (grossjoh@localhost) by petty.cs.uni-dortmund.de id AAA21671; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 00:37:35 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "03 Jul 1999 09:10:13 +0200" Original-Lines: 31 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070091 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.91) Emacs/20.3.11 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23876 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23876 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen 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 -- Life is hard and then you die.