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: rmail-default-file vs. (deleted) rmail-default-rmail-file Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:41:45 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87tz1meydj.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87ljmtooku.fsf@stupidchicken.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247427727 18015 80.91.229.12 (12 Jul 2009 19:42:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:42:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ams@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 12 21:42:00 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 1MQ4vu-00044R-Ka for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:41:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54700 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MQ4vu-0005l2-4i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:41:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MQ4vo-0005kp-6f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:41:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MQ4vj-0005hU-ML for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:41:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41887 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MQ4vj-0005hI-Fc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:41:47 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:59349) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MQ4vj-0004Ob-7t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:41:47 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1MQ4vh-0007IM-LL; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:41:45 -0400 In-reply-to: <87ljmtooku.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (message from Chong Yidong on Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:25:53 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:112375 Archived-At: > 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.