From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mark Lillibridge Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#10082: 23.3; many Rmail commands fail to do the right thing on an empty inbox [MINOR] Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:49:32 -0800 Message-ID: <87zkfrd65v.fsf@hp.com> Reply-To: mark.lillibridge@hp.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1321746670 15654 80.91.229.12 (19 Nov 2011 23:51:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 23:51:10 +0000 (UTC) To: 10082@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 20 00:51:03 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RRugZ-00029w-4V for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 00:51:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50948 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RRugY-0003yc-Bz for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Hit '.' and notice a reasonable "No mail." error message. This is reasonable behavior. A few of the other Rmail commands also produce reasonable error messages; for example, M-m produces "Cannot parse this as a failure message". However, the following commands do not produce a reasonable error message and fail after asking for input with weird error messages like Search failed: " ": f, o, C-o, k, a, w A check for no message should probably be added to these commands. - Mark