From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Michael Reilly Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Rmail changes for Emacs 22 Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 08:21:34 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200210161221.g9GCLYIv023011@copa.pajato.com> References: Reply-To: pmr@pajato.com NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1034983794 14407 80.91.224.249 (18 Oct 2002 23:29:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 23:29:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: d.love@dl.ac.uk, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 182gYv-0003k5-00 for ; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 01:29:49 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 182hRY-00029X-00 for ; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 02:26:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 182d2j-0006sB-00; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 15:44:21 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 182d1q-0006bR-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 15:43:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 182d1l-0006Zk-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 15:43:23 -0400 Original-Received: from gnudist.gnu.org ([199.232.41.7]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 182crX-0007Lj-00; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 15:32:47 -0400 Original-Received: from copa.pajato.com ([209.113.133.197]) by gnudist.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 181nDF-0003c8-00; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 08:23:45 -0400 Original-Received: from copa.pajato.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by copa.pajato.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g9GCLY6F023015; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 08:21:34 -0400 Original-Received: (from pmr@localhost) by copa.pajato.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g9GCLYIv023011; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 08:21:34 -0400 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Richard Stallman on Wed, 16 Oct 2002 00:38:37 -0400) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:8569 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8569 > > Is there any way to read a file into the Unicode Emacs > > that was written using no-conversion in the current Emacs? > > Yes. That's what that change is for. Do you mean it doesn't work? > > I'm glad to hear people are working on reading in old no-conversion > files. I don't know whether it works; I have not tried it. I am just > finding out the situation. > > > Please note that a major change in Rmail is being developed: > > we are going to eliminate Babyl format and use Inbox format. > > I hope `eliminate' doesn't mean you won't be able to read it any more. > > We will have a conversion program. > > If you won't be able to write it, then you can eliminate the part of > the change which updates the Babyl version, but you may need to make > similar changes to whatever you end up with. How will the mbox file > encoding be treated? > > I don't know, and that is a good question. I did not work on that > aspect of Rmail before, and I am not sure what to do about it now. > We might want to save these files normally in emacs-mule encoding, > or maybe we would want to decode each message individually when > displaying it. pmr@pajato.com is the person doing it. I'm inclined to decode each message when displaying it. -pmr