From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Brown Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function' Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:08:25 -0400 Message-ID: <4E8489E9.4010409@cornell.edu> References: <4E1B16B3.1070209@cornell.edu> <4E386CFC.8030304@cornell.edu> <4E3AB9C6.5090001@cornell.edu> <4E3B15B0.5030107@cornell.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1317308932 23557 80.91.229.12 (29 Sep 2011 15:08:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:08:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen , "emacs-devel@gnu.org" To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 29 17:08:45 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R9IE8-0007ox-M1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:08:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41357 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R9IE7-0002uI-VL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:08:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:36746) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R9IE1-0002tz-4n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:08:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R9IDz-000694-VH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:08:37 -0400 Original-Received: from granite1.mail.cornell.edu ([128.253.83.141]:48610 helo=authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R9IDz-00065m-SH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:08:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [128.84.234.241] (dhcp241.math.cornell.edu [128.84.234.241]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id p8TF8TZ3021400 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:08:29 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20110902 Thunderbird/6.0.2 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 9 X-Received-From: 128.253.83.141 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:144477 Archived-At: On 8/7/2011 12:25 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> That would be perfect, although getting a single-line prompt that's >>> understandable by random users is a challenge. >> We're displaying a help screen, so we can blather on at length there and >> keep the prompt shortish... > > Great. This seems to have been forgotten about again. Windows and Mac are still the only platforms on which users are offered the choice of using mailclient-send-it if they haven't configured mail. Are there plans to implement this soon, or should I file a bug report to make sure it doesn't get forgotten? Ken