On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 21:06:01 -0400, Jesse Rosenthal <jrosenthal@jhu.edu> wrote: > On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:12:21 -0500, Jesse Rosenthal <jrosenthal@jhu.edu> wrote: > > Tach is a minor mode that adds mutt-like attachment handling to > > message mode. It's not notmuch specific, but I wrote it to use with > > notmuch, and I thought it might be of use to some on the list. > > I wanted to see if there would be any interest in adding this to notmuch > in 0.4 or after. It makes composing messages with attachments much more > pleasant that using raw mml-mode, and would likely be much more > accomodating to new users. With the new notmuch-mua hooks, it would be > easy to turn on and off as well. I've been using it for a number of > months, and have not had any problems with it. I have not played with the version you posted earlier - sofar I use the attachment functionality that Emacs offers by default and I agree that this is lacking. >From your description I can't quite tell if tach is overkill, though. When I just attach a file I'd like to be able to do this just using the minibuffer to pick a file - not having to open another buffer, press +, find the file, etc... > One issue to note: if you start composing a message with tach-mode > enabled, and then disable it, the attachments you added with tach won't > get added properly (there will just be a plaintext list of them at the > the bottom of the message after a separator). In other words, tach > converts the attachment list on sending, just as message-mode adds > headers, removes "text follows this line", etc. This doesn't seem like > an issue to me (a message started by message-mode can't be sent by > another MUA either) but I did want to bring it to people's attention. I think that's reasonable > If there is interest, I would take the necessary steps to integrate it > and prepare a patch. I'd be interested to see a notmuch integration... /D -- Dirk Hohndel Intel Open Source Technology Center