Re: mailcap viewers in dired; gnus-dired.el, mailcap.el

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> However, it would be even better to install these features
> in the right place to start with.

I agree.

> I've seen several examples where Gnus developers added to Gnus a
> general facility which isn't specificly for reading news or mail.
> That's not the way to add these facilities.  They ought to be
> added in the right place, as separate facilities in Emacs.
>
> Can we arrange with Gnus maintainers to do this differently?

However, that hasn't been trivial in the past (what with the Emacs
feature freeze that lasted two years and all).  When a new, general
facility has been developed because Gnus needed it, it would be
counter-productive to not distribute it with Gnus just because it's not
Gnus-specific.

But when merging, the general stuff should not end up in the Gnus
directory, though.

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  address@hidden * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen