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: Upcoming 23.1 release Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:43:37 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87ws63cij1.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83vdlnnqhv.fsf@gnu.org> <87eisbch53.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83prbvnl26.fsf@gnu.org> <87eisa3vdj.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 1248227157 8371 80.91.229.12 (22 Jul 2009 01:45:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:45:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 22 03:45:49 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 1MTQtw-00037r-8M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:45:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47221 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MTQtv-0007iU-No for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:45:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MTQru-0006OZ-UO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:43:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MTQrq-0006MS-FJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:43:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37914 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MTQrq-0006MN-82 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:43:38 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:43206) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MTQrp-0007fC-K5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:43:37 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1MTQrp-0002r5-9J; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:43:37 -0400 In-reply-to: <87eisa3vdj.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (message from Chong Yidong on Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:31:52 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Error: This connection is not (no longer?) in the cache. 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:112971 Archived-At: With Richard's changes, the auxilliary buffer containing the mbox data is auto-saved, but this buffer does *not* contain the text that's being edited in the RMAIL buffer. So nothing's gained in this case. That is true. In the specific case where an auto-save happens while you are in Rmail-Edit mode, it does not save your edits to the current message. Until you finish the edit, those changes are not in the Rmail buffer. However, with my fix, at least it correctly saves the Rmail file itself, instead of clobbering it with the current message. This applies to any case where the buffer has been changed. It would be good, some day, to set up autosaving for the view buffer during Rmail Edit. But that's not a bug fix, and I don't suggest we do it now.