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mjh@cc.ic.ac.uk (Martyn at Rimmer) writes:
> My question is: Is anyone working on a fully MIME compatible version
> of xmh. The idea being that xmh would interpret a MIME message and
> display the body parts as icons which when hit with the mouse button
> would play the audio or display a image. Certain body parts (eg
> richtext or gifs?) could be actually show in xmh itself by usings
> a different widget or something. A grander solution might be to
> invent a multi-media widget.

Some time ago I played with the idea of using Wcl to replace all of
the functionality of Xmh.  I currently use Axe (with hacks) as my Xmh
editor/whatnow, but want things like word wrap, indentation, spell
checker, etc... and possibly the implementation of MIME (seperate
pop-ups for displaying parts of a message, a special Import dialog
box for incorperating non-text files and a sendproc filter that
ensures that the message is properly formatted).  It's not what I
get paid for, so I'm not planning to do it anytime soon.

It is at least possible to incorperate MIME viewing into xmh (for
viewing) by using your Xdefaults to attach a program (shell script?)
to a button so that when it's pressed, the current message can be
passed through mhn(1) for various parts of a message.  As for
inputting files/images/rtf into a MIME message for sending, you need
to use a better editor with your Xmh before you can do that.  I chose
Axe because it was easily customizable (yet, people rag on me for not
preferring vi or emacs).
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Eric Ziegast