Re: Bug displaying strings surrounded by slashes

Mark D. Baushke <mdb <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Well, I did ask for comments about the ";" command before I committed
> it. I would understand the desire not to have it in the formal
> command-set. It is just very useful to me and I use it a lot. 

We should keep";" since it is kind of special and similar to ",".
And I will fix that function to not directly change the
cutomizable variable -- sorry that I didn't catch it earlier (I
didn't remember that mh-decode-mime-flag was customizable).

> > Lastly, it might be possible to do a better job of distinguishing
> > the type of text attachments with the file command and do smilies
> > and emphasis only for plain text and not for source code.
> 
> I agree in principle, but I am not sure how easy it would be to do.

I will investigate this.  Seems like we can run "file -b -" on the
text/plain part and search for "\\(program\\|script\\)" in the
output.

Satyaki