From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 2022@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#2022: 23.0.60; Rmail buffer marked modified after saving it
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:45:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <snr62rktbs.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uskn7rz41.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:59:10 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> The old (pre-mbox) Rmail also had the unseen attribute, but it never
> marked the Rmail buffer modified when it was removed.
That's a good argument. I wonder how it worked...
> I don't think we want to regard seeing a message as a modification,
> since the body of the message does not change a bit.
But the meta-data (or whatever you want to call it) has changed.
If Emacs were to crash without saving at that point, you would lose
some data, namely the data that you had viewed a particular mail.
It seems pretty reasonable to me. It's what VM does, for example.
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2009-01-24 14:24 ` bug#2022: 23.0.60; Rmail buffer marked modified after saving it Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-25 0:12 ` Glenn Morris
2009-01-25 4:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-25 5:57 ` Glenn Morris
2009-01-25 18:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-25 20:45 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2009-01-25 21:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-26 1:53 ` Glenn Morris
2009-01-29 22:06 ` Glenn Morris
2009-01-30 9:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-30 17:38 ` Glenn Morris
2009-01-30 23:05 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-31 4:17 ` Kevin Rodgers
2009-01-31 8:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-25 1:53 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-25 3:10 ` Glenn Morris
2009-01-25 4:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-25 5:54 ` Glenn Morris
2009-01-25 5:59 ` Glenn Morris
2009-01-25 18:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-26 4:22 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-26 7:25 ` Glenn Morris
2009-01-26 21:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-27 6:11 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-27 7:51 ` Glenn Morris
2009-01-25 4:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-03-06 3:55 ` bug#2022: marked as done (23.0.60; Rmail buffer marked modified after saving it) Emacs bug Tracking System
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