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Mime is a standard for waving your hands through the air, aimlessly, while people stand around yawning.
MIME, however, is a standard for encoding your articles, aimlessly, while all newsreaders die of fear.
MIME may specify what character set the article uses, the encoding of the characters, and it also makes it possible to embed pictures and other naughty stuff in innocent-looking articles.
Gnus pushes MIME articles through gnus-display-mime-function
to display the MIME parts. This is gnus-display-mime
by
default, which creates a bundle of clickable buttons that can be used to
display, save and manipulate the MIME objects.
The following commands are available when you have placed point over a MIME button:
gnus-article-press-button
). If built-in viewers can not display
the object, Gnus resorts to external viewers in the `mailcap'
files. If a viewer has the `copiousoutput' specification, the
object is displayed inline.
gnus-mime-view-part
).
gnus-mime-view-part-as-type
).
gnus-mime-view-part-as-charset
).
gnus-mime-save-part
).
gnus-mime-save-part-and-strip
).
gnus-mime-delete-part
).
gnus-mime-copy-part
). Compressed files like `.gz' and
`.bz2' are automatically decompressed if
auto-compression-mode
is enabled (see section `Accessing Compressed Files' in The Emacs Editor).
gnus-mime-print-part
). This
command respects the `print=' specifications in the
`.mailcap' file.
gnus-mime-inline-part
) as text/plain. If given a prefix, insert
the raw contents without decoding. If given a numerical prefix, you can
do semi-manual charset stuff (see
gnus-summary-show-article-charset-alist
in 3.4 Scrolling the Article).
gnus-mime-view-part-internally
).
gnus-mime-view-part-externally
).
gnus-mime-pipe-part
).
gnus-mime-action-on-part
).
Gnus will display some MIME objects automatically. The way Gnus determines which parts to do this with is described in the Emacs MIME manual.
It might be best to just use the toggling functions from the article buffer to avoid getting nasty surprises. (For instance, you enter the group `alt.sing-a-long' and, before you know it, MIME has decoded the sound file in the article and some horrible sing-a-long song comes screaming out your speakers, and you can't find the volume button, because there isn't one, and people are starting to look at you, and you try to stop the program, but you can't, and you can't find the program to control the volume, and everybody else in the room suddenly decides to look at you disdainfully, and you'll feel rather stupid.)
Any similarity to real events and people is purely coincidental. Ahem.
Also see section 3.18 MIME Commands.
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