Ken Hornstein wrote:
Well, it depends on the message. Sometimes I get a message with 20 photos
attached. I just want to be able to easily go from one to the next without
having to type their part number.
But ... what's wrong with doing something like:
mhstore -type image
Then you can deal with each of those photos as a seperate file.
ui wise, i don't want files. i want to act on the attachments (view
them, in this case) and then leave them stored as attachments (without
having to delete any temporary files.)
i don't know exactly how to match mime to the simplicity of show(1), and
i've been violently repulsed any time i tried to use mhshow(1), but i
think what i want would look a bit like whatnow(1) is to send(1).
(for many years i used "send -wa" because my sendmail.cf was a hack,
then i used "push" when i stopped being fascinated by SMTP traces.)
the command set i'd suggest for whatnowmime(1) would include things like:
ls | dir
shows the full message structure (like in ftp)
cd x.y.z
go to part x subpart y subsubpart z
next
go to next attachment at same level (like in gdb)
step
go to next attachment at or below the current one (like gdb)
prev
opposite of next
back
opposite of step
up
go up one level
view
launch an external viewer suitable for this mimetype
show
do the best you can in inline ascii for this mimetype
save [-r] [x.y.z]
save the current part (default) or part x subpart y subsubpart z, maybe
recursively (-r)
quit
exit from mhshow(1)
--
P Vixie
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