From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#2137: 23.0.60; Saving Rmail buffer does not show the "Saving file ..." message Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:35:12 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Stefan Monnier , 2137@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1233596128 30519 80.91.229.12 (2 Feb 2009 17:35:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 17:35:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 2137@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 02 18:36:42 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LU2iu-0004JX-1M for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:36:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57700 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LU2hW-000277-CD for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:35:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LU2WG-0006te-GV for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:23:36 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LU2WF-0006st-JP for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:23:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43767 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LU2WE-0006sZ-R2; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:23:34 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:54740) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LU2WE-0002t9-1z; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:23:34 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n12HNV20005685; Mon, 2 Feb 2009 09:23:32 -0800 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id n12HF7iH003809; Mon, 2 Feb 2009 09:15:07 -0800 X-Loop: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs , Rmail Maintainers Resent-Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:15:07 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: followup 2137 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs,rmail X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 2137-submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B2137.12335945522077 (code B ref 2137); Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:15:07 +0000 Original-Received: (at 2137) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 2 Feb 2009 17:09:12 +0000 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. 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Stallman's message of "Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:48:37 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:23:35 -0500 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:24837 Archived-At: > In an Rmail buffer, type "C-x C-s" to save it: you will almost never > see the usual "Saving file FOO..." message, because buffer-soze, > called by save-buffer, returns the size of the current message, not of > the entire message collection. > The clean way to fix this is with something like `buffer-swapped-with'. > I did not remember the existence of this feature when I recommended > implementing `buffer-swapped-with', so I can't really say "I told you > so." But there is a general tendency that these sorts of features > need to be checked and acted on in various places in the code, and > most of them don't have any hooks. This problem at least simply points to a current bug in save-buffer. Maybe with buffer-swapped-with you could work around the bug rather than fixing it. Or even fail to see that it's a general bug rather than a problem with buffer-swapped-with. I'm not sure it's a benefit. Stefan