From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: message creates ~/Mail Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:56:36 +0900 Message-ID: <87vdjnnry3.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <4AA1B07E.3080703@alice.it> <4AAABF56.40802@alice.it> <4AAB5BD0.2010503@alice.it> <4AAC15EC.6060905@alice.it> <87my4zr2xg.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <08fxarzh4q.fsf_-_@fencepost.gnu.org> <873a6rr0hu.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87ws436ysp.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1252832224 15186 80.91.229.12 (13 Sep 2009 08:57:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:57:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 13 10:56:57 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 1MmktE-0007s8-Av for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:56:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47304 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MmktD-0000oz-Ik for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 04:56:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mmkt5-0000mo-Kv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 04:56:47 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mmkt0-0000cn-SL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 04:56:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57389 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mmkt0-0000cE-IU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 04:56:42 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp12.dentaku.gol.com ([203.216.5.74]:39704) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mmksy-0004VX-1k; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 04:56:41 -0400 Original-Received: from 218.45.67.12.eo.eaccess.ne.jp ([218.45.67.12] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp12.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1Mmksu-0002da-Fr; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:56:36 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 52852DF23; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:56:36 +0900 (JST) System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <87ws436ysp.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (Reiner Steib's message of "Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:20:38 +0200") Original-Lines: 15 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV GOL (outbound) X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:115265 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:68989 Archived-At: Reiner Steib writes: >> I'd tend to agree. Make it a bug-report? > > What do you suggest to do instead? I suppose it could have a backup list of places to autosave mail if message-directory doesn't exist... (e.g., "~/.emacs.d", "~", etc)? Or perhaps, a default value for message-directory, like "~/.emacs.d/mail" would be more generally palatable than ~/Mail. -Miles -- Accord, n. Harmony.