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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?)




  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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