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- From: ziegast@rodan.UU.NET (Eric W. Ziegast)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.multi-media
- Subject: Re: MIME and xmh
- Date: 5 Nov 1992 08:03:25 -0500
- Organization: UUNET Technologies - Falls Church, VA
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- References: <1992Nov5.104412.2241@cc.ic.ac.uk>
- Reply-To: ziegast@uunet.uu.net (Eric W. Ziegast)
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- mjh@cc.ic.ac.uk (Martyn at Rimmer) writes:
- > My question is: Is anyone working on a fully MIME compatible version
- > of xmh. The idea being that xmh would interpret a MIME message and
- > display the body parts as icons which when hit with the mouse button
- > would play the audio or display a image. Certain body parts (eg
- > richtext or gifs?) could be actually show in xmh itself by usings
- > a different widget or something. A grander solution might be to
- > invent a multi-media widget.
-
- Some time ago I played with the idea of using Wcl to replace all of
- the functionality of Xmh. I currently use Axe (with hacks) as my Xmh
- editor/whatnow, but want things like word wrap, indentation, spell
- checker, etc... and possibly the implementation of MIME (seperate
- pop-ups for displaying parts of a message, a special Import dialog
- box for incorperating non-text files and a sendproc filter that
- ensures that the message is properly formatted). It's not what I
- get paid for, so I'm not planning to do it anytime soon.
-
- It is at least possible to incorperate MIME viewing into xmh (for
- viewing) by using your Xdefaults to attach a program (shell script?)
- to a button so that when it's pressed, the current message can be
- passed through mhn(1) for various parts of a message. As for
- inputting files/images/rtf into a MIME message for sending, you need
- to use a better editor with your Xmh before you can do that. I chose
- Axe because it was easily customizable (yet, people rag on me for not
- preferring vi or emacs).
- --
- Eric Ziegast
-