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From: dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm)
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [attachments] Circumventing the mime description and type query
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 22:36:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vblr9jxo.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878uingm7x.fsf@debian.uxu>

Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:

> Leo Butler <leo.butler@member.fsf.org> writes:
>
>>> I hardly ever need to specify the description and
>>> type when attaching a file. Are there options for
>>> circumventing these queries? I don't care about
>>> the description and would like to specify the
>>> type, mostly for images, as "inline" by default.
>>
>> Can't you record a keyboard macro to do this?
>
> There are, I'm sure, configurations.
>
> In general, keyboard macros aren't a good idea for
> this.
>
> Better to write Elisp functions that calls those
> functions with their interfaces, or parts thereof,
> spelled out. So instead of calling the function
> interactively, you make your own function interactive,
> and then have that call the original functions, but
> now not interactively but from Elisp.
>
> I think you know how to do that, but if you don't, I
> can help you.

Thank you, but I already wrote a bug report, let's see whether I'm
getting an answer from Gnus' tower?

   Dieter
-- 
Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Darmstadt, Germany



  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-04 21:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.14730.1417041760.1147.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2014-11-27  6:38 ` Damien Wyart
2014-11-27  7:49   ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2014-12-04 20:35     ` Leo Butler
     [not found]     ` <mailman.15274.1417725324.1147.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2014-12-04 21:05       ` Emanuel Berg
2014-12-04 21:36         ` H. Dieter Wilhelm [this message]
2014-11-26 19:19 H. Dieter Wilhelm

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