GNU bug report logs - #36572
Proposal: mm-default-filename-template

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From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (The Gnus Bugfixing Girls + Boys)
Subject: Proposal: mm-default-filename-template
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 05:54:24 +0800

Don't you hate when you have to fill in the blank to an empty
Save MIME part to: ~/
prompt?

Sure one can set mm-default-directory, but what about the filename?

(Yes, one can cheat a little (setq mm-default-directory "/tmp/vvv-"))

So there should be some filename template variable, nil by default, that
will prompt to save to xyz-%d.%s e.g., xyz-001.html depending if that
file doesn't exist yet.

Even GIMP prompts with Untitled.jpg.
Even  ... prompts with ...

Let's take a look at a typical HTML mail,

! MIME-Version: 1.0
! Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
! Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

So here we can already know we can help the user put an .html at the end
of the proposed target filename.

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Message #8 received at 36572 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Cc: 36572 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36572: Proposal: mm-default-filename-template
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 14:20:23 +0200

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org> writes:

> Even GIMP prompts with Untitled.jpg.
> Even  ... prompts with ...
>
> Let's take a look at a typical HTML mail,
>
> ! MIME-Version: 1.0
> ! Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
> ! Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>
> So here we can already know we can help the user put an .html at the end
> of the proposed target filename.

If the MIME part doesn't have a specified file name, then I don't think
Emacs can usefully suggest anything as a default name, and it's kinda
un-emacsey.  If you've opened a buffer and activated html-mode, `C-x
C-w' doesn't suggest "Untitled.html" as a file name, but leaves that up
to the user.

Closing.

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