bug#2023: 23.0.60; rmail-redecode-body is not available

bug#2023: 23.0.60; rmail-redecode-body is not available

[Eli Zaretskii]

Please write in English if possible, because the Emacs maintainers
usually do not have translators to read other languages for them.

Your bug report will be posted to the emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org mailing list.

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

There's no rmail-redecode-body function in the new Rmail (after the
mbox merge).  This command is very important functionality, both for
when Emacs decodes the message incorrectly (e.g., due to absent or bad
MIME headers in the message), and when a multi-part message is decoded
by hand.

If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger,
please include the output from the following gdb commands:
    `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
If you would like to further debug the crash, please read the file
d:/gnu/emacs/etc/DEBUG for instructions.


In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2009-01-24 on HOME-C4E4A596F7
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4)'

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: ENU
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: cp1255
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: RMAIL

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<return> <return> <up> <up> <up> <up> SPC SPC <down> 
<M-left> SPC SPC <down> <M-left> SPC SPC <down> <down> 
T h e SPC l a s t SPC c o m m a n d SPC a u t o m a 
t i c a l l y SPC s a v e s SPC t h e SPC R m a i l 
SPC i n b o x SPC ( a s SPC i t SPC s h o u l d ) , 
SPC b u t SPC t h e SPC b u f f e r SPC i s SPC m a 
r k e d SPC m o d i f i e d SPC a f t e r SPC s a c 
e <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> t 
h e SPC s a v e SPC <backspace> . <C-left> <C-left> 
<C-left> <C-left> <C-left> <C-left> <C-right> SPC n 
e v e r t h e l e s s M-q <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <help-echo> C-x o <C-home> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> C-SPC <next> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <next> 
<next> <next> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> M-w <down-mouse-1> <drag-mouse-1> <help-echo> 
<C-home> <down> <right> <right> <right> <right> C-SPC 
<down> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <down> C-e 
<right> M-w <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <help-echo> 
C-x C-x C-x 0 <down> <down> <up> C-SPC <down> M-w C-x 
b m a <tab> <return> M-x r e d e c o d e - b o d y 
<return> C-g C-h f r e d e <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> m a i l - r e d e c o d e - b o d y <return> 
<return> C-g M-x <up> <return>

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bug#2023: 23.0.60; rmail-redecode-body is not available

[Chong Yidong]

I've committed an updated version of rmail-redecode-body.  Could you
check whether it works properly?

bug#2023: 23.0.60; rmail-redecode-body is not available

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
> Cc: 2023@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:48:00 -0500
> 
> I've committed an updated version of rmail-redecode-body.  Could you
> check whether it works properly?

It seems to work in a few simple tests, but fails badly in others.  I
fixed one obvious problem with it, but the rest are still there.

However, the current state of affairs in the new Rmail regarding
non-ASCII characters is so badly broken that it's impossible to say
which problems are due to rmail-redecode-body and which are caused
elsewhere.

I suggest to leave this bug open until the other bugs related to
encoding/decoding (#2015, #2017, and #2018) are fixed, and then
revisit this one.

Thanks.