From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#2022: 23.0.60; Rmail buffer marked modified after saving it Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:45:59 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Glenn Morris , 2022@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 1232917480 31821 80.91.229.12 (25 Jan 2009 21:04:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:04:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 2022@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 25 22:05:53 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 1LRCA4-0000rK-N2 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:04:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52867 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LRC8m-0005mv-U5 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:03:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LRC8j-0005m7-Eo for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:03:33 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LRC8i-0005lZ-15 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:03:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55940 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LRC8h-0005lW-SV for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:03:31 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:41368) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LRC8h-0004YJ-6O for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:03:31 -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 n0PL3TkA016140; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:03:29 -0800 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id n0PKt3id013794; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:55:03 -0800 X-Loop: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Glenn Morris Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs , owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:55:03 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: followup 2022 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs,rmail X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 2022-submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B2022.123291645812519 (code B ref 2022); Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:55:03 +0000 Original-Received: (at 2022) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 25 Jan 2009 20:47:38 +0000 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org (fencepost.gnu.org [140.186.70.10]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n0PKlZ3K012513 for <2022@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:47:36 -0800 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1LRBrj-000449-7P; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:45:59 -0500 X-Spook: USDOJ target Abu Ghraib freedom Albright Defcon Noriega S X-Ran: 2<_yT|(#j}q/9Tbp_CX9PX!%D{`6xA$P@"0'R8:>?tEytyO[>gw.L|bEU#E::2_WKK.n~A X-Hue: magenta X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:59:10 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:03:33 -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:24531 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > The old (pre-mbox) Rmail also had the unseen attribute, but it never > marked the Rmail buffer modified when it was removed. That's a good argument. I wonder how it worked... > I don't think we want to regard seeing a message as a modification, > since the body of the message does not change a bit. But the meta-data (or whatever you want to call it) has changed. If Emacs were to crash without saving at that point, you would lose some data, namely the data that you had viewed a particular mail. It seems pretty reasonable to me. It's what VM does, for example.