From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Mail mode vs message mode Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:49:27 -0500 Message-ID: <87tywd1808.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87639beb4n.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <876399p00j.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87iqd8rh73.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> <87r5rvvknw.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87lji3od0l.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> <87vdh6focv.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87pr7aftaj.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> <871vjmcmgh.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> <87skc03tsk.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259520602 16010 80.91.229.12 (29 Nov 2009 18:50:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:50:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Katsumi Yamaoka Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 29 19:49:55 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NEoq5-0002GE-Iq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:49:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49196 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NEoq5-0000Eq-BN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:49:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NEopz-0000E2-L0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:49:35 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NEopu-0000Ca-2o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:49:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51332 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NEopt-0000CX-UG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:49:29 -0500 Original-Received: from pantheon-po38.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.97]:48080) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NEopt-0003A2-ND for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:49:29 -0500 Original-Received: from furry (dhcp128036014216.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.216]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po38.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id nATInRHV028281 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:49:27 -0500 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B719FC071; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:49:27 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Katsumi Yamaoka's message of "Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:32:01 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:117931 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:69232 Archived-At: Katsumi Yamaoka writes: > It will be something like: > > (defcustom message-yank-prefix > (if (featurep 'xemacs) > "> " > (if (or (string-match "\\`23\\.1\\.5[0-9]\\.[0-9]*\\'" emacs-version) > (>= emacs-major-version 24) > (and (= emacs-major-version 23) (>= emacs-minor-version 2))) > mail-yank-prefix > "> ")) > "doc string") > > But I don't find a meaningful difference in it from: > > (defcustom message-yank-prefix "> " > "doc string") > > In other words, I'd prefer to revert the recent changes in message.el. How about not synching message.el automatically? If message-mode is to become the default mail mode for Emacs, we need to be able to make changes to it as part of Emacs. If that can't be done, I'd prefer to switch back to mail-mode.