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Re: mail-add-attachment
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: mail-add-attachment |
Date: |
Fri, 09 Sep 2011 21:40:47 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>>>> > +\\[mail-attach-file] insert a text file into the message.
>>>> > +\\[mail-add-attachment] add to the message a file as a MIME attachment.
>>>> I think mail-attach-file needs to be renamed to mail-insert-file.
>>> I thought about this, but isn't it too late to introduce incompatible
>>> changes on the user level? This command is there by that name since
>>> 1997. I would at most go with a new name and an alias that is
>>> deprecated.
>> Of course we'd keep an osolete alias. But since we're making changes
>> anyway, I'd rather add that extra change to your patch.
> You want to rename the command that adds an attachment to
> `mail-insert-file'? Ok... fine by me...
That's the thing: that command does not add an attachment, it's an old
non-MIME command that inserts the content of a text file into the email
text (with surrounding textual marks). It was a poor man's
"attachment", but nowadays noone would be fooled into thinking that this
is an attachment.
Stefan
Re: mail-add-attachment, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/09/10