Re: buffer-swap-text and multibyteness

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:03:41 -0500
> 
> >> In my poiunt of view, the way "edit" should work is that it should
> >> basically be put into `message-mode' and then "saving" would simply
> >> encode the whole message (as if preparing to send it).
> > I'm not sure this isn't an overkill.
> 
> Not sure why you'd think so.

When did you last look at the code you were describing?  It does a lot
more then just encode the message and add/rewrite the Content-Type
headers.

> >> To do that, we could/should use the code we already have for Gnus.
> > Similar code exists in sendmail.el and smtp-mail.el.
> 
> Great.  We probably don't need to another yet-another implementation,
> then, do we?

We don't, but IIRC the code each of these places has is tightly
coupled with other package-specific processing.  If we want a single
general-purpose one, we need first to refactor it.  Again, please take
a look at each of these packages.