From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard M Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Rmail conversion misfeature Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 23:03:29 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1237691080 15614 80.91.229.12 (22 Mar 2009 03:04:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 03:04:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 22 04:05:53 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 1LlDzk-0007Uv-5J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Mar 2009 04:05:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48868 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LlDyN-00045Q-KR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 23:03:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LlDyI-000455-Nn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 23:03:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LlDyE-000445-DR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 23:03:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41644 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LlDyE-000442-7H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 23:03:30 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:52914) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LlDyD-0002s1-R6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 23:03:29 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1LlDyD-0002TL-Gt; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 23:03:29 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:10:53 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:109772 Archived-At: That sounds good. The only downside I could imagine is if you look at this file repeatedly without ever modifying it, and it's large enough that conversion takes a non-negligible time. If you want to convert the file, it is easy to type commands that will modify the RMAIL buffer and cause it to be saved. d u s