From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Allan Gottlieb Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: multiple *mail* buffers? Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:34:08 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20090119152837.8E502D2D8A6@montanaro.dyndns.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1232400891 27691 80.91.229.12 (19 Jan 2009 21:34:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:34:51 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 19 22:36:03 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LP1mn-0003u8-3c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:35:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36111 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LP1lW-0004Cj-26 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:34:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LP1lA-0004Ak-Uo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:34:16 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LP1l9-000497-GW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:34:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52724 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LP1l9-00048y-7r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:34:15 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu ([128.122.80.33]:55358) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LP1l8-0003hF-SO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:34:14 -0500 Original-Received: from ajglap.localdomain (ool-4578da1c.dyn.optonline.net [69.120.218.28]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.14.3/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n0JLYDY7008718 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:34:14 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by ajglap.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1502) id A9F4119D921; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:34:08 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20090119152837.8E502D2D8A6@montanaro.dyndns.org> (skip@pobox.com's message of "Mon\, 19 Jan 2009 09\:28\:37 -0600 \(CST\)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:61480 Archived-At: At Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:28:37 -0600 (CST) skip@pobox.com wrote: > After years of XEmacs use I'm still trying to find my way around GNU Emacs > in general and Aquamacs in particular. XEmacs allows multiple active mail > composition buffers. Is there a way to accomplish this with GNU > Emacs/Aquamacs? I don't use aquamacs, but on gnu emacs with linux kernel, it just works. That is if you type C-x m you get a buffer named *mail* If, before sending, you type C-x m again, you get a buffer named *mail*<2> and the original is still there. So you can work on both msgs before sending either. Similarly for more than two messages. allan