From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: rmail-default-file vs. (deleted) rmail-default-rmail-file Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:25:53 -0400 Message-ID: <87ljmtooku.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87tz1meydj.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247415977 21161 80.91.229.12 (12 Jul 2009 16:26:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:26:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: ams@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 12 18:26:10 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 1MQ1sP-00005g-Ae for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:26:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50917 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MQ1sO-00050m-MX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:26:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MQ1sJ-000507-Vw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:26:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MQ1sF-0004uD-3G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:26:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57583 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MQ1sE-0004tq-Sz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:25:58 -0400 Original-Received: from pantheon-po26.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.121]:38936) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MQ1sA-00068v-N0; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:25:54 -0400 Original-Received: from furry (c-71-192-161-14.hsd1.nh.comcast.net [71.192.161.14]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po26.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id n6CGPrAu018420 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:25:54 -0400 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B983CC09B; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:25:53 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Alfred M. Szmidt's message of "Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:46:11 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 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:112368 Archived-At: "Alfred M. Szmidt" writes: > > Can we change the default value of rmail-output-file to ~/XMAIL? > > Since that was the default (`o' was bound to > > rmail-output-to-rmail-file and used rmail-default-rmail-file). > > Why do you prefer XMAIL to xmail? (A temporary setting made during > pretest does not count.) > > rmail files have always uppercase, so it makes it easy to list just > them with `ls *MAIL*'. I find it also very confusing that `o' now > outputs to ~/xmail, when I have a ~/XMAIL that I use. The argument could go either way; the *mbox* files that Rmail output to always defaulted to lowercase (~/xmail). I don't feel strongly about the matter, so it would be good if more rmail users weigh in on this. (Richard?)