From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: command rebuild-mail-abbrevs Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:05:13 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <54444baa-c9be-46c6-8767-83b1115d1d2b@i39g2000prd.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1306267637 11311 80.91.229.12 (24 May 2011 20:07:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 20:07:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 24 22:07:13 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QOxsm-00058o-IG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 May 2011 22:07:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52485 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QOxsl-00076l-SZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 May 2011 16:07:11 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!i39g2000prd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 131.225.103.35 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1303160714 10232 127.0.0.1 (18 Apr 2011 21:05:14 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 21:05:14 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i39g2000prd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=131.225.103.35; posting-account=czAMxQoAAAAUEojshw4CrIvcwSdulymE User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.16) Gecko/20110319 Firefox/3.6.16 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:186692 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:81043 Archived-At: On Mar 30, 1:09=A0pm, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Alan > > Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:26:27 -0700 (PDT) > > > The "problem" is that the command is not documented in the manual. > > Please "M-x report-emacs-bug RET", then. > > I cannot promise that it will get this function into the manual -- we > don't document every single function -- but that's the right way to > request that it is included. > > TIA Emacs FAQ has the following, so I suppose that this serves as documentation for how to force rereading of the `.mailrc file (or its equivalent). 12.3 Why doesn't Emacs expand my aliases when sending mail? * Emacs normally only reads the `.mailrc' file once per session, when you start to compose your first mail message. If you edit `.mailrc', you can type `M-: (build-mail-aliases) ' to make Emacs reread `~/.mailrc'.