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Shane Holder <holder@rsn.hp.com> writes:

  > I guess I don't understand how buttonization differs from
  > MIMEification.  I expected buttonization to be Gnus' way of saying
  > "Hey I understand this and here's a button to show you what I can do
  > with it." 

MIMEification means to display a MIME message in a meaningful way.
Buttonization means do MIMEification *plus* add buttons for every
part.

For instance.  Let's say you have a three-part multipart/mixed, and
the first part is text/plain with the contents "first", the second is
text/html with the contents "<b>second</b>", and the third is
text/plain with the contents "third".  Gnus will display text/plain
and text/html inline by default.  Thus, you will see the following:

,-----
| firstsecondthird
`-----

But the "second" will be bold.

If you add buttons (buttonize), you see this:

,-----
| [1 text/plain]
| first
| [2 text/html]
| second
| [3 text/plain]
| third
`-----

Of course, "second" will again be bold and the [...] things will be
buttons.

Do you now see the difference between MIMEified unbuttonized messages
and MIMEified buttonized ones?

kai
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