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["Followups should be chosen, not merely accepted." --Not Confucius]

I know about mime-compose.el and the metamail patches for VM.  That's
not quite (or not all of) what I'm looking for.  What I'd like are
patches or add-ons to GNUS and VM that will allow me to:

- see richtext in my GNUS and VM buffers (under epoch) as proper bold,
  underline, etc

- compose richtext (even in a lame manner; this can probably be lifted
  from some of the TeX or SGML modes...all I really want is something to
  insert tag-pairs with a keystroke, and give me some kind of preview)

- attach files (mime-compose.el would be a good place to start)

- deal with "other" format (attached files should be decoded and saved,
  ftp external-references should use ange-ftp, etc).

- do quoting with "excerpt" (this should be added to supercite)

Oh, and I'd like peace on Earth, goodwill toward men, a trip to Tahiti,
and a Winnebago. :)

Seriously, though, I think an integrated MIME package or set of patches
that can become part of GNUS and VM would be something a lot of people
would be interested in (not just me).  So I welcome comments on my
wishlist from other wishers as well as potential implementors (my elisp
is, sad to say, pretty much on the level of (setq this-config-var t), so
I can't offer much help).

Again, choose your followups; if you're only discussing one package (or
the epoch-specific highlighting parts), go to the Right Place...
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