From: "Andrea G. Monaco" <andrea.monaco@autistici.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Unseen attribute doesn't get saved in rmail
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2020 15:03:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sg7m3wdx.fsf@autistici.org> (raw)
Hello everyone,
there's a behavior in rmail I can't quite understand.
I never delete my mail, I just read it. So here's the problem: when some
messages are read and marked as such, the modified flag of the RMAIL
buffer apparently stays cleared, so Emacs doesn't offer to save it when I
close the editor.
This way I lose track of read mail every time.
I think these are the relevant lines in rmail.el inside
rmail-show-message-1:
;; Mark the message as seen, but preserve buffer modified flag.
(let ((modiff (buffer-modified-p)))
(rmail-set-attribute rmail-unseen-attr-index nil)
(unless modiff
(restore-buffer-modified-p modiff)))
So the modified flag is explicitly cleared after reading a new message.
Is there some reason I can't see for this behavior? Maybe we could add a
configuration option to let the user choose.
Let me know,
Andrea Monaco
next reply other threads:[~2020-12-31 14:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-31 14:03 Andrea G. Monaco [this message]
2020-12-31 16:31 ` Unseen attribute doesn't get saved in rmail Eli Zaretskii
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2021-01-02 20:05 Andrea G. Monaco
2021-01-02 20:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-08 21:33 Andrea G. Monaco
2021-01-09 7:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-11 12:28 Andrea G. Monaco
2021-01-11 15:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
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