From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: ams@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: rmail-default-file vs. (deleted) rmail-default-rmail-file
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:41:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1MQ4vh-0007IM-LL@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ljmtooku.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (message from Chong Yidong on Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:25:53 -0400)
> 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.
I have a habit of saving messages in files called xmail/foo.xmail, etc.,
all being lower case. Since these file names are entered solely
by users, I think we cannot assume they all follow any rule.
But as regards ~/xmail vs ~/XMAIL for the default, ISTR that during
the transition to mbox format I saw an advantage in making the default
different. But in fact the current Rmail deals just fine with saving
into Babyl files, so I now think it is better to keep the default
unchanged from Emacs 22.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-12 19:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-06 10:56 rmail-default-file vs. (deleted) rmail-default-rmail-file Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-07-09 5:45 ` Glenn Morris
2009-07-09 7:06 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-07-09 14:15 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-10 6:46 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-07-12 16:25 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-12 19:41 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2009-07-13 2:52 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-13 6:45 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-07-13 13:29 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-15 9:35 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
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