From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Rmail changes for Emacs 22 Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 00:55:41 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200210160719.QAA05776@etlken.m17n.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035003514 7290 80.91.224.249 (19 Oct 2002 04:58:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 04:58:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@is.elta.co.il, emacs-devel@gnu.org, pmr@pajato.com Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 182lh2-0001tJ-00 for ; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 06:58:32 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 182mZn-0001YL-00 for ; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 07:55:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 182lfy-0002ap-00; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 00:57:26 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 182leK-0002BY-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 00:55:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 182leH-0002Am-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 00:55:43 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 182leH-0002AY-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 00:55:41 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 182leH-00071x-00; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 00:55:41 -0400 Original-To: handa@m17n.org In-reply-to: <200210160719.QAA05776@etlken.m17n.org> (message from Kenichi Handa on Wed, 16 Oct 2002 16:19:37 +0900 (JST)) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:8574 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8574 (1) Divide the current code into BABYL format handler (babyl-backend) and rmail user-interface provider (rmail-frontend). This plan is not inherently flawed, but it would be a lot of work. Our actual plan is both simpler and better: to get rid of Babyl format entirely. Paul has already rewritten Rmail to work on mbox format. There is no need to keep Babyl format, and using mbox format will be more convenient all around. Rmail-frontend displays a message in a different buffer (rmail-view-buffer) than the original mail file buffer. That would be inconvenient for editing the message and several other things. I think that having two separate buffers is something to avoid.