From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC245431FAF for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:12:46 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[none] autolearn=disabled Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id rJY9WPxSZEgt for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:12:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tesseract.cs.unb.ca (tesseract.cs.unb.ca [131.202.240.238]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0C6F5431FAE for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:12:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fctnnbsc30w-156034089108.dhcp-dynamic.fibreop.nb.bellaliant.net ([156.34.89.108] helo=zancas.localnet) by tesseract.cs.unb.ca with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SOZY2-00046N-0E; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:12:42 -0300 Received: from bremner by zancas.localnet with local (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1SOZXw-0006Uc-Jt; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:12:36 -0300 From: David Bremner To: Thomas Jost , Jameson Graef Rollins , notmuch@notmuchmail.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] emacs: Let the user choose where to compose new mails In-Reply-To: <87y5pn76al.fsf@schnouki.net> References: <87d3cx2t38.fsf@rocinante.cs.unb.ca> <1323797532-597-1-git-send-email-schnouki@schnouki.net> <1323797532-597-2-git-send-email-schnouki@schnouki.net> <87pqbayukw.fsf@servo.finestructure.net> <878vhxt5bt.fsf@zancas.localnet> <87y5pn76al.fsf@schnouki.net> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.12+140~g0c819b9 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/23.4.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:12:36 -0300 Message-ID: <87k40yfj2z.fsf@zancas.localnet> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Spam_bar: - X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:12:47 -0000 Thomas Jost writes: > AFAICT, Emacs 23 is just buggy in this case. By reading the code of > message-send-and-exit and message-bury [1], here is what happens when > you call message-send-buffer-and-exit with message-kill-buffer-on-exit > set to nil: > - message is sent > - buffer is buried with burry-buffer > - message-bury: if the window is dedicated and its frame not the only > visible frame, then this frame is deleted OK, I guess I can live with the behaviour as an emacs 23 bug, but I think we should warn the user of this bug somewhere prominently, perhaps in the customize message. Effectively users of emacs23 and emacsclient will probably want to avoid the "new-window" setting. d