pull request

[Servilio Afre Puentes]

On 22 April 2010 08:30, David Edmondson <dme at dme.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 04:58:16 -0400, Servilio Afre Puentes <servilio at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 21 April 2010 17:03, Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:27:39 +0100, David Edmondson <dme at dme.org> wrote:
>> [...]
>> > Meanwhile, another issue with the result of this series is that I now
>> > seem to get rendering for both the text/plain and the text/html
>> > alternatives when a message has both. For now, the paragraphs are
>> > wrapped much more nicely in the rendering of the html portion, but links
>> > are apparently entirely missing. The link URLs at least appear in the
>> > text/plain rendering, (which is pretty ugly, but at least not impossible
>> > to use).
>> >
>> > If we could get one version or the other working completely, then it
>> > would be nice to display only one.
>>
>> I think that a better approach here would be to list them as parts if
>> they are present, then have a [configurable] way to show only one by
>> default, and the other would be available to show in-line.
>
> Showing only one (with a variable allowing you to express preference) is
> my intention. Any non-shown parts will appear as attachments - you can
> save them using the button (and perhaps later view them).

Why not see them in-line if possible?

> This can make quite a big difference in a 200 message thread with lots
> of 'text/plain or text/html ?' choices - using the text/plain part will
> improve the performance of building the show buffer significantly.

Yes, it can make a big difference.

>> What I miss in this view sometimes is the possibility of being able to
>> see the structure of the thread. A way to toggle the expanded state of
>> the messages originally expanded when I first opened the view would do
>> this very nicely.
>
> Ah, so you want a "go back to how it was initially" command?

Yep, then bind it to a key that would alternate between collapsing all
messages and expanding the ones that were originally expanded.

Servilio