Re: Incompatible change without warning

[Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>]

 > Kyle Jones' VM 7.19 (and prior) mailer has an (unfocus-frame) in its
 > vm-window.el file, VM didn't like the 2005-05-01 CVS removal of
 > unfocus-frame.

Since unfocus-frame does nothing but return nil, I don't know why it was
needed in the first place

 > My local workaround was to comment out the (unfocus-frame) in my copy
 > of vm-window.el; which may not be an option to the average VM user.

It might be better to replace it with nil since it's at the end of a
function (vm-warp-mouse-to-frame-maybe).

 > I just sent details to bug-vm@wonderworks.com, though there hasn't
 > been active VM development since Sept 2004.

I happen to use VM 7.19 and although it does indeed have unfocus-frame I have
not encountered any problems. VM isn't part of Emacs and doesn't really
respect it. It uses global hooks, tramples over global bindings and generally
does its own thing. Clearly Richard Stallman will decide what to do in this
case but I see it as VM's problem, not Emacs', if you have filed a bug report.

Rmail and MH-E are mail readers which *are* part of Emacs (which I must admit
I haven't used). Clearly hese will be supported by future Emacs releases.

Nick