From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: buffer-offer-save, gnus and mh-e Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 17:06:47 -0400 Message-ID: References: <200504171500.j3HF0Ha22225@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <21194.1113759889@olgas.newt.com> <200504172025.j3HKPwV24187@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1113858369 30436 80.91.229.2 (18 Apr 2005 21:06:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:06:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: wohler@newt.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 18 23:06:07 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DNdQD-0007UO-6K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 23:04:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DNdUO-00080H-4V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 17:09:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DNdT3-0007JH-JE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 17:07:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DNdT2-0007IM-6I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 17:07:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DNdT1-0007BZ-Mw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 17:07:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DNdU6-0005c4-Uk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 17:08:47 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DNdSB-0005A4-4S; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 17:06:47 -0400 Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-reply-to: <200504172025.j3HKPwV24187@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Sun, 17 Apr 2005 15:25:58 -0500 (CDT)) 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:36093 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36093 I do not know the various mail modes sufficiently to reliable take care of this and the backward and XEmacs compatibility issues complicate things and could make the involved code needlessly ugly. If we want to change this variable, we can change it. We can make some provisions for compatibility where that is useful, but compatibility should not hold us back. However, the issue of the various ways to get into message-mode might be a real obstacle.