From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Mail mode vs message mode
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:53:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r5rvvknw.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87iqd8rh73.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (Reiner Steib's message of "Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:10:08 +0100")
Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
>> (defcustom message-from-style
>> (if (featurep 'xemacs) 'angles mail-from-style)
>> ....)
>
> I don't like this. The current default value of message-from-style
> tries to avoid quoting if possible and therefore is preferable to
> `angles'. BTW, message-mode doesn't handle the value
> `system-default'.
We should switch the mail-mode default to `angles'. Not sure what to do
about the `system-default' setting; maybe we should deprecate it, as I'm
not sure it's useful anymore.
> If I understand the correctly, the goal is not to provide full
> compatibility with mail-mode but to have a default mail composition
> mode that handles MIME correctly. So how about simply providing a
> function, say `message-initalize-from-mail-mode' that initializes
> message variables and hooks from the corresponding mail-mode ones?
One minor problem: Customize would complain about the value being
changed from the default. In general, it's not nice to set the default
value of a variable outside of its defcustom, as that can lead to
confusion.
We can do it your way if you really object to making the message-mode
options default to the corresponding mail-* options, but I'd like to
know the reasoning first. (If any of the default values for the mail-*
options grate, like mail-from-style, we can change them.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-18 16:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-15 21:22 Mail mode vs message mode Chong Yidong
2009-11-15 22:55 ` Xavier Maillard
2009-11-16 2:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-16 9:56 ` Xavier Maillard
2009-11-17 1:14 ` Miles Bader
2009-11-17 22:59 ` Xavier Maillard
2009-11-16 4:57 ` Miles Bader
2009-11-17 16:51 ` Chong Yidong
2009-11-17 21:10 ` Reiner Steib
2009-11-18 16:53 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2009-11-18 19:20 ` Reiner Steib
2009-11-19 14:56 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-11-19 16:53 ` Chong Yidong
2009-11-20 0:07 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2009-11-22 15:55 ` Reiner Steib
2009-11-24 9:19 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2009-11-25 21:40 ` Reiner Steib
2009-11-25 23:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-25 23:13 ` Chong Yidong
2009-11-26 1:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-26 1:43 ` Miles Bader
2009-11-28 13:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-27 8:41 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2009-11-27 14:51 ` Chong Yidong
2009-11-29 0:32 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2009-11-29 18:49 ` Chong Yidong
2009-11-30 0:00 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2009-11-22 15:55 ` Reiner Steib
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