From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: gnus-summary-save-in-rmail Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:15:22 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20090623165455.1680008466.qww314159@motoko.argon.local> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1245798945 10293 80.91.229.12 (23 Jun 2009 23:15:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:15:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jay Berkenbilt Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 24 01:15:37 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 1MJFDF-0008WI-6V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:15:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60233 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MJFDE-0007lI-Hj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:15:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MJFD6-0007if-Ns for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:15:28 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MJFD2-0007g2-4D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:15:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33318 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MJFD1-0007fz-RP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:15:23 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:57169) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MJFD1-00018M-Lj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:15:23 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1MJFD1-00011p-1O; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:15:23 -0400 X-Spook: STARLAN Baranyi mania lock picking MD2 JFK Operation X-Ran: [:JBEBq*+F|(lTmTRIN*%s^:;r{Kh8Q!["6|V0o~+Dlpo-uEW[P'J=`F/qZRmkk6W0J0M0 X-Hue: white X-Attribution: GM User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) 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:111667 Archived-At: Jay Berkenbilt wrote: > In emacs 23, rmail will use mbox format. Is BABYL format being > deprecated overall? I would say so. Emacs 23 can't do anything with Babyl files without converting them to mbox. (You can look at them without saving the change though.) > Does this make the gnus-summary-save-in-rmail function misnamed > since it seems to still write in BABYL format? I don't think so. It writes "the format used by rmail" rather than "babyl format". From the doc of gnus-output-to-rmail, which gnus-summary-save-in-rmail calls: In Emacs 22 this writes Babyl format; in Emacs 23 it writes mbox unless FILENAME exists and is Babyl format. > Is this still a suitable default value for gnus-default-article-saver? It seems a reasonable, backwards compatible default. Gnus likes to support older Emacs releases.