Re: Gnus: How to simplify file attachments?

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Marius Hofert <marius.hofert@math.ethz.ch> writes:

> On 2012-01-07, at 04:42 , Leo wrote:
>
>> On 2012-01-07 06:07 +0800, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>>> Right.  If Emacs supports drag-and-drop, then it would certainly be
>>> natural for Message do use it to add attachments.
>>> 
>>> If nobody else implements this, I'll have a look at it during the next
>>> development cycle.
>> 
>> DnD attachments works already.
>
> Can you explain how, please?
It is working fine for me when i DnD from Thunar in a message buffer.
(even for pdf's)

> If I DnD a .pdf to a new message buffer (Gnus v5.13, Emacs 24, Mac OS
> X 10.7.2), the *code* of the .pdf file is inserted, not a link to the
> .pdf file as attachment. To be more precise, a huge amount of code is
> inserted starting with "%PDF-1.5..." (as if you look at the .pdf file
> as .txt).
> Furthermore, DnD of an attachment out of a received email also did not work 
> under my setup above. I just can't "grab" the .pdf. 

Can't reproduce here on xubuntu with thunar.


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