bug#4432: Message creates ~/mail

bug#4432: Message creates ~/mail

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:

> See discussion at
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-09/msg00326.html
>
> emacs -Q
> C-x m
> C-x k RET
>
> and you have a ~/Mail directory.
>
> This behaviour represents a change from mail-mode, which uses ~ for
> auto-saves IIUC.

Is this a bug, though?

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bug#4432: Message creates ~/mail

[Glenn Morris]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Is this a bug, though?

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-09/msg00328.html

   "I'd tend to agree.  Make it a bug-report?"


It still annoys me that every time I fire up

emacs -Q C-x m

to test something, I have to delete ~/Mail afterwards. And I can't even
use rmdir, because it contains an empty `drafts' subdirectory. Grr.


If ~/Mail does not exist already, hide the auto-saves away somewhere
under ~/.emacs.d rather than creating ~/Mail just for them and and I
will be happy.

bug#4432: Message creates ~/mail

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:

> It still annoys me that every time I fire up
>
> emacs -Q C-x m
>
> to test something, I have to delete ~/Mail afterwards. And I can't even
> use rmdir, because it contains an empty `drafts' subdirectory. Grr.
>
> If ~/Mail does not exist already, hide the auto-saves away somewhere
> under ~/.emacs.d rather than creating ~/Mail just for them and and I
> will be happy.

I've changed it to save the auto-saves to ~.  That way no directories
will be created by sending email under -Q.

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