From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: ams@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: rmail-default-file vs. (deleted) rmail-default-rmail-file
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:25:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ljmtooku.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1MP9s3-0001So-0Z@fencepost.gnu.org> (Alfred M. Szmidt's message of "Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:46:11 -0400")
"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org> writes:
> > Can we change the default value of rmail-output-file to ~/XMAIL?
> > Since that was the default (`o' was bound to
> > rmail-output-to-rmail-file and used rmail-default-rmail-file).
>
> Why do you prefer XMAIL to xmail? (A temporary setting made during
> pretest does not count.)
>
> rmail files have always uppercase, so it makes it easy to list just
> them with `ls *MAIL*'. I find it also very confusing that `o' now
> outputs to ~/xmail, when I have a ~/XMAIL that I use.
The argument could go either way; the *mbox* files that Rmail output to
always defaulted to lowercase (~/xmail). I don't feel strongly about
the matter, so it would be good if more rmail users weigh in on this.
(Richard?)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-12 16:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-06 10:56 rmail-default-file vs. (deleted) rmail-default-rmail-file Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-07-09 5:45 ` Glenn Morris
2009-07-09 7:06 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-07-09 14:15 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-10 6:46 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-07-12 16:25 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2009-07-12 19:41 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-13 2:52 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-13 6:45 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-07-13 13:29 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-15 9:35 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
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