From: Alexander Pohoyda <alexander.pohoyda@gmx.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [rmail-mbox-branch]: inital problems
Date: 06 Oct 2004 23:50:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878yajwm6y.fsf@oak.pohoyda.family> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1C8S49-0001Jo-Ph@fencepost.gnu.org>
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> It would be nice if the new rmail would report an error if it is
> trying to open a old mailbox. Right now it just assumes that it knows
> what it is doing, and will barf with a babyl formated mailbox.
>
> How about this?
>
> (setq run-mail-hook t)
> (rmail-mode-2)
> ! (goto-char (point-min))
> ! ;; If file starts like a Babyl file, reject it.
> ! (if (looking-at "BABYL OPTIONS:")
> ! (error "This is a BABYL file; use M-x unrmail to convert it")))
> (goto-char (point-max)))
> ;; As we have read a file by raw-text, the buffer is set to
> ;; unibyte. We must make it multibyte if necessary.
There's a function `mail-file-babyl-p' in mail-utils.el, shouldn't we
use it?
--
Alexander Pohoyda <alexander.pohoyda@gmx.net>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-06 21:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-14 23:28 [rmail-mbox-branch]: inital problems Alfred M. Szmidt
2004-09-16 16:59 ` Alexander Pohoyda
2004-09-16 17:13 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2004-09-17 23:22 ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-18 0:09 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2004-09-18 22:56 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-06 21:50 ` Alexander Pohoyda [this message]
2004-09-18 19:07 ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-18 21:10 ` Stefan
2004-09-16 17:21 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2004-09-17 23:23 ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-17 23:57 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2004-09-18 22:56 ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-20 0:06 ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-20 0:26 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2004-09-20 0:42 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2004-09-17 9:36 ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-18 0:18 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
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