Say that in my /tmp directory I have the file (I have chosen on purpose a name a bit long):
turlututuchapeaupointu Say I compose an email with VM and attach that file with 'C-c C-a'. It is very fast to type '/tmp/tur<TAB>' in the minibuffer (the completion is likely to work), then <Enter>, <Enter>, <Enter> and the file is attached. If I do that before writing the actual body of the message, I see the following in my VM buffer: [ATTACHMENT turlututuchapeaupointu, application/octet-stream] except that it appears blue and underlined (above I have in fact manually copied letter by letter what I saw; then I deleted the actual attachment). Then I want to tell the recipient that I have attached a file, so I would typically write, above the attachment, something like: Please find attached the turlututuchapeaupointu file. But since it is a bit long, and emacs being essentially plain text, I am inclined to copy the string 'turlututuchapeaupointu' from the attachment line. Visually, it's fine: I see exactly the line 4 lines above; in particular, 'turlututuchapeaupointu' is not blue nor underlined. But then the file the recipients receive (and me, if I CC to myself) contains (between the === lines): ================================================================== Please find attached the ---------------------------------------------------------------------- __Untyped binary data: turlututuchapeaupointu, Untyped bi_____[save]_ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- file. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- __Untyped binary data: turlututuchapeaupointu, Untyped bi_____[save]_ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================== Here too, I have manually typed everything. In the true email the 'Untyped binary data' lines are blue, fully underlined, with a square on top of the first 2 underscores and actually "contain" the attached file. So to me the copied string in the VM compose buffer does contain the full attachment although I cannot detect it visually. Rather puzzling the first time for a real email with several attached files and names copied and inserted in this way in a realistic text :-) Regards. -- EOST (École et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre) ITE (Institut Terre & Environnement) | [email protected] 5 rue René Descartes | Phone: +33 (0)3 68 85 50 44 F-67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France | bureau 110, ancien bât.
