From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Rmail conversion misfeature Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:25:34 -0400 Message-ID: <4lzlffd335.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1237602906 15270 80.91.229.12 (21 Mar 2009 02:35:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 02:35:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 21 03:36:24 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Lkr4Q-000092-3x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 03:36:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51505 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lkr33-0001Eb-JR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:34:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lkr2x-0001EV-NY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:34:51 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lkr2s-0001DK-Kw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:34:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57275 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lkr2s-0001DH-H1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:34:46 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:34933) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lkr2s-0004ZW-8p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:34:46 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Lkqty-0006CZ-FM; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:25:34 -0400 X-Spook: JPL eternity server SHA asset North Korea CIDA Nazi X-Ran: 7=hr`P6_Ncx%n#Y?_ysD}f~aCdD*z[V?n4(8M;EzA$Ix9xO'R#r`9mvEI|V7K^ X-Hue: blue X-Attribution: GM 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, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:109746 Archived-At: Richard M Stallman wrote: > Querying before converting a Babyl file is misguided feature. > There is no way to proceed except to convert it. Why not add a defcustom controlling this: nil don't convert, just visit literally t convert without asking anything else ask When asking, it could offer you the choice to set said defcustom to either t or nil (similar to how unsafe file local variables get handled). > I can envision a better way to achieve that goal: (1) mark the > buffer unmodified after conversion, and (2) change the operations > that would modify the buffer first warn you and query. That feature > won't cause any hassles just to look at the file, but when you try > to alter it, you will be notified that this would result in changing > its format when you save the changes. That seems a bit complicated.