* Another "Rmail" problem I ran into
@ 2024-06-09 16:19 Dr Rainer Woitok
2024-06-09 16:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Dr Rainer Woitok @ 2024-06-09 16:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Help-Gnu-Emacs
Greetings,
because sometimes Google sends some reply mail to my inbox before it
sends the corresponding original mail, I added the following lines to my
"Rmail" configuration file:
(defun Sort-Date ()
"Sort incoming mail by date."
(rmail-summary-sort-by-date nil))
(add-hook 'rmail-get-new-mail-hook 'Sort-Date)
But this leads to either the summary or the message buffer not being
displayed, and in buffer "*Messages*" I find
Getting mail from /home/rainer/mail/.HAM...
Counting new messages...done (1)
Finding sort keys...30
Reordering messages...30
Counting messages...done
Computing summary lines...done
rmail-show-message: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil
Just in case it matters: including the one new message there are 39 mes-
sages in the summary buffer, so why does "Rmail" only process 30 messa-
ges?
When I again comment out the "add-hook" line above and restart "Rmail",
everything works again (well, except for the sorting of course).
What's going wrong here?
Sincerely,
Rainer
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* Re: Another "Rmail" problem I ran into
2024-06-09 16:19 Another "Rmail" problem I ran into Dr Rainer Woitok
@ 2024-06-09 16:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-10 15:32 ` Dr Rainer Woitok
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2024-06-09 16:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Help-Gnu-Emacs
> From: Dr Rainer Woitok <rainer.woitok@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2024 18:19:13 +0200
>
> Greetings,
>
> because sometimes Google sends some reply mail to my inbox before it
> sends the corresponding original mail, I added the following lines to my
> "Rmail" configuration file:
>
> (defun Sort-Date ()
> "Sort incoming mail by date."
> (rmail-summary-sort-by-date nil))
>
> (add-hook 'rmail-get-new-mail-hook 'Sort-Date)
You cannot call rmail-summary functions from rmail-get-new-mail-hook,
not without switching to the right buffer and doing other bookkeeping.
rmail-get-new-mail-hook is a hook intended to act on the new messages
in the Rmail buffer, it is not intended to make summaries.
> But this leads to either the summary or the message buffer not being
> displayed, and in buffer "*Messages*" I find
>
> Getting mail from /home/rainer/mail/.HAM...
> Counting new messages...done (1)
> Finding sort keys...30
> Reordering messages...30
> Counting messages...done
> Computing summary lines...done
> rmail-show-message: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil
>
> Just in case it matters: including the one new message there are 39 mes-
> sages in the summary buffer, so why does "Rmail" only process 30 messa-
> ges?
Because when the hook is called, the Rmail buffer is narrowed to
include only the newly arrived email messages.
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* Re: Another "Rmail" problem I ran into
2024-06-09 16:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2024-06-10 15:32 ` Dr Rainer Woitok
2024-06-10 16:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Dr Rainer Woitok @ 2024-06-10 15:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eli Zaretskii; +Cc: Help-Gnu-Emacs
Eli,
On Sun, 09 Jun 2024 19:47:20 +0300 you wrote:
> ...
> You cannot call rmail-summary functions from rmail-get-new-mail-hook,
> not without switching to the right buffer and doing other bookkeeping.
> rmail-get-new-mail-hook is a hook intended to act on the new messages
> in the Rmail buffer, it is not intended to make summaries.
Hm, wouldn't that be worth being mentioned in both, the docstring and
the info-pages? From the hook functions I am aware of, this seemed to
be the natural place for running my function.
And does that mean that the only way achieving my goal is to re-bind key
"g" to a function which first runs "rmail-get-new-mail" and then "rmail-
summary-sort-by-date"? Or is there another hook function I could use?
Sincerely,
Rainer
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* Re: Another "Rmail" problem I ran into
2024-06-10 15:32 ` Dr Rainer Woitok
@ 2024-06-10 16:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2024-06-10 16:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Help-Gnu-Emacs
> From: Dr Rainer Woitok <rainer.woitok@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2024 17:32:21 +0200
> Cc: Help-Gnu-Emacs@Gnu.Org
>
> On Sun, 09 Jun 2024 19:47:20 +0300 you wrote:
> > ...
> > You cannot call rmail-summary functions from rmail-get-new-mail-hook,
> > not without switching to the right buffer and doing other bookkeeping.
> > rmail-get-new-mail-hook is a hook intended to act on the new messages
> > in the Rmail buffer, it is not intended to make summaries.
>
> Hm, wouldn't that be worth being mentioned in both, the docstring and
> the info-pages?
It is mentioned now, I added that yesterday.
> And does that mean that the only way achieving my goal is to re-bind key
> "g" to a function which first runs "rmail-get-new-mail" and then "rmail-
> summary-sort-by-date"?
That's the simplest way, yes. So I suggest that you do that in your
customizations.
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