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morioka@jaist.ac.jp (=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCPGkyLBsoQiAbJEJDTkknGyhC?= / MORIOKA Tomohiko) writes:

> sb> Thanks for the report.  You have definitely found a bug.  This
> sb> patch will need to be applied to SEMI if this code hasn't been
> sb> there fixed yet.

Are you the right person to bug about SEMI... ? Yesterday the
connection with .jp seemed good so I got me the lastest alpha of SEMI
and gnus mime and I still have a few questions.

[Note I know that SEMI is still a work in progress. It is just that I
want to influence the direction of that progress without doing any
actual work]

1. Are you planing to drop the defvar's of Gnus variables in
   gnus-mime?  They are evil (talk to Hrvoje) and moreover you wouldn't
   be able to keep up with the defcustoms of Gnus.
   Just require the user to a

   (setq gnus-show-mime-bla-bla blaibla)

   and setup a few autoloads. On the same lines eval-after-load seems
   unnecessay to me. 
   
2. Are you planing to support XEmacs-Latin1 the future?
3. Have you lookes at vm's mime support? To me it seems more user
   friendky.  For us latin1 guys the
   multiplart and embedded pictures support is way more important then
   the fancy coding systems.
4. Are you going to reduce the dependece on external methods. If Emacs
   can do it itself (say tm-file) then it should be done in elisp.


Jan

