From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Recognize mbox files? Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:15:56 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87d4dpd194.fsf@xemacs.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1234415778 30506 80.91.229.12 (12 Feb 2009 05:16:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:16:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 12 06:17:31 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 1LXTx5-0001CE-Ex for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:17:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43228 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LXTvl-0004Np-8Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:16:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LXTvg-0004Nk-B2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:16:04 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LXTvd-0004NV-Ux for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:16:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53898 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LXTvd-0004NQ-Ov for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:16:01 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]:15088 helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LXTvb-0001Mr-9w; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:15:59 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AoQFAOc+k0lFxIvi/2dsb2JhbACBbtIohBsGgyQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.38,195,1233550800"; d="scan'208";a="33751000" Original-Received: from 69-196-139-226.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.139.226]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 12 Feb 2009 00:15:56 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id BC1F77FE6; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:15:56 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:09:22 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:109006 Archived-At: >> >> Otherwise, Rmail will have to be considered risky for use by mail >> >> admins. >> > Heh, what it does nowadays is nothing compared with what it did before >> > the mbox merge: it would convert the file to Babyl! How's that for >> > ``risky''? >> >> But *when* did it do it? Would it do it, just by C-x C-f RET? > The conversion happened when you turned on rmail-mode. If C-x C-f did > that automatically, the conversion happened automatically just by > typing C-x C-f. But could C-x C-f do that "by accident"? Anyway, even if it could, we want to be more careful now. I think the idea of checking the presence of RMAIL tags before allowing to modify the buffer is a good plan. Stefan