Re: VM-BUG: vm-followup-include-text parses multipart message wrong
In article <871w4bmc3o.fsf(a)uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> "Stephen J.
Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
Given a MIME message with content-type
multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"
and this structure
multipart/mixed
text/plain, charset=us-ascii
text/x-patch, charset=us-ascii, content-disposition=inline
text/plain, charset=us-ascii
application/pgp-signature
`vm-reply-include-text' and `vm-followup-include-text' parse it
incorrectly. They leave you in a buffer with only the first
text/plain part included and quoted. The second text/plain part
should definitely be included and quoted, and I would argue that the
text/x-patch part should be included and quoted because it has
content-disposition "inline", so the author expected it to be
displayable.
I don't think this is a bug - you just don't agree with the spec.
MIME doesn't have a notion of include-and-quote, so if you want to include
a multipart message you have to include it as a MIME part. It's not obvious
what the right answer is to how to include-and-quote such a message.
Kyle (presumably) took the easiest option, which is to assume the
first text part is the message - which usually works.
An alternative view, which is what you appear to want here, is that
you should include-and-quote the text seen when you view the message.
If that's what you want, VM will do it for you - see
vm-reply-include-presentation .
I find that sometimes I want one, sometimes the other, so I have the
following little mod in my .vm:
; mods to R and F so that they include the presentation buffer
; if called with C-u.
(require 'vm-reply)
(defun vm-reply-include-text (count)
"Reply to the sender (only) of the current message and include text
from the message. See the documentation for function vm-reply for details.
Modified to include presentation buffer if given C-u prefix argument."
(interactive "P")
(vm-follow-summary-cursor)
(vm-select-folder-buffer)
(vm-check-for-killed-summary)
(vm-error-if-folder-empty)
(let ((c 1)
(vm-reply-include-presentation vm-reply-include-presentation))
(if (consp count)
(setq vm-reply-include-presentation t)
(setq c (prefix-numeric-value count)))
(vm-do-reply nil t c)))
(defun vm-followup-include-text (count)
"Reply to all recipients of the current message and include text from
the message. See the documentation for the function vm-reply for details.
Modified to include presentation buffer if given C-u prefix argument."
(interactive "P")
(vm-follow-summary-cursor)
(vm-select-folder-buffer)
(vm-check-for-killed-summary)
(vm-error-if-folder-empty)
(let ((c 1)
(vm-reply-include-presentation vm-reply-include-presentation))
(if (consp count)
(setq vm-reply-include-presentation t)
(setq c (prefix-numeric-value count)))
(vm-do-reply t t c)))
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