Re: rmail and mime encoded patches annoyance

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 19 May 2023 02:11:03 -0400
> 
> Is there some way of "decoding the message" permantnetly into ASCII or
> something, so that it now longer is MIME encoded?  So you get "What I
> See Is What I Edit" behaviour..  This would then also be useful when
> one replies to such messages with inline comments to a patch.

Not that I know of, no.  MIME capabilities in Rmail are minimal, and
do 90% of the job very well, but not much more.

FWIW, I almost never use rmail-edit, and don't really understand why
it's useful, let alone when a MIME patch is attached to it.  If what
you need is to edit the patch before applying it, then (a) that is not
really recommended, since you will be applying code attributed to
someone else with your own changes; and (b) you could always copy the
patch to another buffer, edit it there, and then apply.