>>>>> Kelly Dean <kelly@prtime.org> writes:
>>>>> Eli Zaretskii wrote:

 >>> Also, grep -r "~/Mail/" emacs-24.4/lisp/ | grep 'el:' gives 19
 >>> hits, all of which are inappropriate if ~/Mail isn't supposed to be
 >>> hardcoded.  If ~/Mail is supposed to be hardcoded, then the
 >>> message-directory variable should be removed, to avoid misleading
 >>> users.

 >> This is a red herring: all of these hits are either in comments or
 >> in default values of other defcustoms.

 > If a user renames his ⌜Mail⌝ directory to ⌜mail⌝, then he'll want all
 > the things that previously used ⌜Mail⌝ to use ⌜mail⌝.  Manually
 > changing them all is tedious and error-prone, so it'd be nice to have
 > one place to make the change.  In Emacs, message-directory advertises
 > itself as that place.

	Only as long as message-mode (or anything deriving from it) is
	considered.

	I tend to think that defcustom’s :set does not fit for this
	case, and instead suggest using nil as the default for the
	variables whose defaults derive from message-directory, –
	something along the lines of the (untested) patch MIMEd.

	* lisp/gnus/message.el (subr-x): Require feature.
	(message-auto-save-directory): Default to nil.
	(message-auto-save-directory): New function.
	(message-set-auto-save-file-name): Use it.

 > I lowercased my mail directory name both because it's easier to type
 > that way (don't have to press shift),

	Seconded.

 > and because some other things already use the lowercase version by
 > default, and there was no reason to use both upper- and lower-case
 > versions.

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