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Re: Editing email replies
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Peter Davis |
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Re: Editing email replies |
Date: |
30 Aug 2002 11:38:00 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Honest Recruiter (Windows [3])) |
Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net> writes:
> In article <erBb9.37325$kp.567963@rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net>,
> pd <pd@world.std.com> wrote:
> >I've been thinking about how to edit replies to MIME messages that use
> >multipart/alternative. For example, suppose the message has a text/plain
> >alternative and a text/html alternative, as shown below. When I insert some
> >plain text in my reply, I'd really like the resulting message to have the
> >two alternatives for the text before my insertion, then my insertion in
> >plain text, and then the two alternatives after my insertion.
> >
> >In other words, I want to go from:
> >
> > multipart/alternative
> > text/plain
> > text/html
> >
> >to
> >
> > multipart/mixed
> > multipart/alternative
> > text/plain
> > text/html
> > text/plain <--- my reply!
> > multipart/alternative
> > text/plain
> > text/html
>
> This seems like it would be extremely difficult to automate, because Emacs
> would have to determine which parts of the plain and HTML alternatives
> correspond to each other, so that it can find the correct dividing points.
I agree that it seems difficult. Yet some e-mail programs do this (or
something like this, I guess). If someone sends me a message with
blue, sans-serif text, I can reply and put comments interspersed with
that text. The resulting message still has the original sender's text
in blue, sans-serif text, and my comments interspersed in Courier (or
some other plain text font).
Possibly this is because the program is displaying and editing the
text/html, and it only has to find the corresponding point in the
text/plain segment, rather than the other way around (editing the
text/plain, and trying to find the corresponding point in text/html).
I don't know, but somehow it works.
Thanks,
-pd
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