From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: bug#5179: 23.1.90; Get rid of Rmail's constant swapping of text between rmail-buffer and rmail-view-buffer Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:34:02 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83aaxp90gd.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org, 5179@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1260625799 422 80.91.229.12 (12 Dec 2009 13:49:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 13:49:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii , 5179@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 12 14:49:52 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NJSLw-0000hm-3r for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:49:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55778 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NJSLw-0007ny-5B for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:49:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NJSJt-0006Yi-N0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:47:37 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NJSJp-0006VE-DH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:47:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41541 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NJSJn-0006Ug-Ek for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:47:31 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:54354) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NJSJm-00030e-Dh for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:47:30 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id nBCDlSlx027520; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 05:47:28 -0800 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id nBCDe59d026692; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 05:40:05 -0800 Resent-Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 05:40:05 -0800 X-Loop: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Richard Stallman Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs 2Resent-Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 13:40:05 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: followup 5179 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B.126062484426055 (code B ref -1); Sat, 12 Dec 2009 13:40:05 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 12 Dec 2009 13:34:04 +0000 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org (fencepost.gnu.org [140.186.70.10]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id nBCDY3lL026052; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 05:34:04 -0800 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NJS6k-0002vf-DQ; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:34:02 -0500 In-reply-to: <83aaxp90gd.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:09:22 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Resent-Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:47:37 -0500 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:33517 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:25311 Archived-At: Rmail calls buffer-swap-text too much. Related discussions concluded that this is unnecessary and introduces potential bugs and maintenance headaches. See this message and the rest of its thread for the related discussions: I did this for some low-level functions when I finished up the Rmail-mbox code. It would be nice to clean up some more in the same way,