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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Please try Pmail
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:39:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r62zjr79.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1LOlnJ-00036J-M7@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:31:25 -0500")

Richard M Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> However, I see no reason why this needs to output into a temporary file.
> Why not construct the mbox data in a buffer and leave it there?

I think because it calls the function unrmail, which was already in
existence, and unrmail operates on files.  It should be possible to
rewrite unrmail to operate on buffers; the only tricky spot would be
handling the coding-system conversion correctly.




  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-19 14:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-18  3:43 Please try Pmail Richard M Stallman
2009-01-18 14:47 ` Chong Yidong
2009-01-18 15:06   ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-01-18 20:40   ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-19  1:41     ` Chong Yidong
2009-01-19  2:57     ` Chong Yidong
2009-01-20  4:57       ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-20 14:20         ` Chong Yidong
2009-01-21  2:37           ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-21  4:11             ` Chong Yidong
2009-01-21  4:18               ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-21 15:06                 ` Chong Yidong
2009-01-21 20:38                   ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-21 21:21                     ` Chong Yidong
2009-01-22  4:12                       ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-22  4:55                         ` Chong Yidong
2009-01-23  1:52                           ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-23  2:35                             ` Chong Yidong
2009-01-21 20:32               ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-21 21:07                 ` Chong Yidong
2009-01-20 23:00         ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-21  5:56           ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-20  1:00     ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-19  4:31   ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-19 14:39     ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2009-01-19  1:59 ` Glenn Morris
2009-01-20  0:59   ` Richard M Stallman

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