bug#4448: 23.1; unrmail fails if buffer has mixed line endings (patch)

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> > If you have to modify the code to detect the situation and generate
>> > an more meaningful error message, there should be clear
>> > instructions on how to fix it.... which is still not very friendly.
>> Run it through dos2unix or "flip -u", or even find-file-literally in
>> Emacs, then remove all ^M characters and save.
> Yes, I know how to convert; I have an elisp function named ^m that
> does this, but it's an annoyance and it is unknown how many other
> users will encounter this.  Again, I assert that if Emacs created rmail
> files with ^m in them, then  Emacs should repair them, especially if
> Emacs forces mbox conversion.

Agreed.
Of course, maybe the ^Ms were not added by Emacs but by your networked
file system.  Still, if the BABYL file worked fine with Emacs-22,
I think we should try and make it work fine with Emacs-23 as well.


        Stefan