From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brendan Halpin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: mime-compose.el and Debian Date: 31 May 2005 18:10:51 +0100 Message-ID: <8764wzgw2s.fsf@wivenhoe.staff8.ul.ie> References: <87d5rc1yi6.fsf@wivenhoe.staff8.ul.ie> <87is14bq03.fsf@wivenhoe.staff8.ul.ie> Reply-To: brendan.halpin@ul.ie NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1117559541 26208 80.91.229.2 (31 May 2005 17:12:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 17:12:21 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 31 19:12:15 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DdAFu-0003HD-9s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 May 2005 19:10:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DdAL1-0007TQ-Lz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 May 2005 13:15:35 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Trace: individual.net zj9wAzK8n/xyaic3/n/SegzVtIg0kJKR0QNu+KyHv8JJNe4aNx User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:131640 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:27099 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:27099 Kevin Rodgers writes: > Brendan Halpin wrote: > > I do use both (ie currently in message-mode), but can't break the > > RMAIL habit so I get mail-mode when I do C-u R. > > Doesn't RMAIL respect mail-user-agent? > > (setq mail-user-agent 'message-user-agent) Yes, it does, but my problem is knowing which one I *should* use, in terms of long-term development of functionality. I was thinking that I should go to message-mode, which is on the face of it more sophisticated, but mail-mode is core Emacs, and RMS is in favour of it staying that way (and in theory merging message-mode functionality back into mail-mode, but I don't know if that is happening). Brendan -- Brendan Halpin, Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, Ireland Tel: w +353-61-213147 f +353-61-202569 h +353-61-338562; Room F2-025 x 3147 mailto:brendan.halpin@ul.ie http://www.ul.ie/sociology/brendan.halpin.html