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Re: Improving attachment viewing

2002-11-20 09:30:05
Where we're had to move away from nmh towards gnus is in MIME
composition (e.g. for the ability to specify inline/attachment).

You might want to look at the attachment stuff that I checked in a while
back.  I implemented it in such a way that it could easily be incorporated
into MH-E.  The short summary is that you can specify the names of attachments
using a header field, and send handles invoking mhbuild as required to
package everything up before sending.  Anno has been extended to assist in
managing the header fields.

It might be nice to be able to output a character in a scan column if
attachments are present.  MH-E could even replace that character with a
paperclip glyph or something to pretty it up.

Seems to me that my notion of scanning attachments is getting the most
attention here, even though it's not the most important part to me.  My
main interest is in being able to read attachments in a more consistent
way.  Maybe an example would help...

Right now, a session looks like this:

        % inc
         <scan output>
        
        % show
         (oh, this looks like a multipart message)
        
        % mhlist
        % mhshow -part 1
        % mhshow -part 1.1
        % mhshow -part 2
         (...)
        % next
        ...

What I'd like to be able to do is:

        % inc
         <scan output>
        % show
        % next
         (show first part of current message)
        % next
         (show next part of current message)
        % next
         (...)
        % next
         (show first part of next message)

Jon

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