message-mode-map

message-mode-map

[Vin Shelton]

Sorry to follow up my own post, but since no one has responded, I
thought I should send out some more info:

Previously I had written:
> I'm using oort from the latest CVS under XEmacs 21.4, and I have lost
> my C-c C-c binding for message-send-and-exit.  I went looking in the
> source, and I found the following fragment in message.el:
> 
>     (unless message-mode-map
>       (setq message-mode-map (make-keymap))
>       (set-keymap-parent message-mode-map text-mode-map)
> 
> Inside this form C-c C-c is bound to message-send-and-exit, so I
> guess that when this form is executed, message-mode-map is non-nil.
> 
> When I build gnus from source and copy it into my site-packages
> directory, I run make install and then I run the following command
> in order to generate autoloads:
> 
>     xemacs -vanilla -batch -eval "(setq autoload-package-name
>            \"gnus\")" -f batch-update-directory .
> 
> If I remove this auto-autoloads file from the lisp/gnus directory and
> then start gnus [via (load-library "gnus") M-x gnus], then C-c C-c is
> correctly bound, apparently because message-mode-map is nil when the
> relevant code is executed in message.el.
> 
> So it looks to me like something in my auto-autoloads.el file is
> causing message-mode-map to be defined, and this, in turn is
> preventing the default message-mode-map from being set correctly.

I don't know if it's clear from the post, but none of the standard C-c
bindings are set up in my standard oort/XEmacs configuration.

My investigation has revealed that the following autoload from
message.el causes the problem.  When I comment this line out of
auto-autoloads.el, the appropriate keybindings get set up in message
mode.  In particular, C-c C-c gets bound to message-send-and-exit.

    (define-derived-mode message-mode text-mode "Message"
      "Major mode for editing mail and news to be sent.
    Like Text Mode but with these additional commands:\\<message-mode-map>
    C-c C-s  `message-send' (send the message)  C-c C-c  `message-send-and-exit'
    C-c C-d  Postpone sending the message       C-c C-k  Kill the message
    C-c C-f  move to a header field (and create it if there isn't):
             C-c C-f C-t  move to To	C-c C-f C-s  move to Subject
             C-c C-f C-c  move to Cc	C-c C-f C-b  move to Bcc
             C-c C-f C-w  move to Fcc	C-c C-f C-r  move to Reply-To
             C-c C-f C-u  move to Summary	C-c C-f C-n  move to Newsgroups
             C-c C-f C-k  move to Keywords	C-c C-f C-d  move to Distribution
             C-c C-f C-o  move to From (\"Originator\")
             C-c C-f C-f  move to Followup-To
             C-c C-f C-m  move to Mail-Followup-To
             C-c C-f C-i  cycle through Importance values
    C-c C-t  `message-insert-to' (add a To header to a news followup)
    C-c C-l  `message-to-list-only' (removes all but list address in to/cc)
    C-c C-n  `message-insert-newsgroups' (add a Newsgroup header to a news reply)
    C-c C-b  `message-goto-body' (move to beginning of message text).
    C-c C-i  `message-goto-signature' (move to the beginning of the signature).
    C-c C-w  `message-insert-signature' (insert `message-signature-file' file).
    C-c C-y  `message-yank-original' (insert current message, if any).
    C-c C-q  `message-fill-yanked-message' (fill what was yanked).
    C-c C-e  `message-elide-region' (elide the text between point and mark).
    C-c C-v  `message-delete-not-region' (remove the text outside the region).
    C-c C-z  `message-kill-to-signature' (kill the text up to the signature).
    C-c C-r  `message-caesar-buffer-body' (rot13 the message body).
    C-c C-a  `mml-attach-file' (attach a file as MIME).
    C-c C-u  `message-insert-or-toggle-importance'  (insert or cycle importance).
    C-c M-n  `message-insert-disposition-notification-to'  (request receipt).
    M-RET    `message-newline-and-reformat' (break the line and reformat)."

Can anyone please explain to me what is going on and how to fix it?

Thanks in advance,
   vin

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Re: message-mode-map

[Mark Thomas]

From
  http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-beta/200107/msg00138.html
it looks like a patch was submitted to the gnus team last fall.

I applied the patch in
  http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-patches/200108/msg00023.html
to my XEmacs 21.1.14 autoload.el and fixed the problem in my XEmacs.

-Mark

Re: message-mode-map

[Mark Thomas]

I wrote:
> From
>   http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-beta/200107/msg00138.html
> it looks like a patch was submitted to the gnus team last fall.

I should be a bit more clear.

A patch was submitted and it has been applied, so the autoloads that
Gnus generates are correct.

But Vin is attempting to use XEmacs to build the autoloads, and that
will not work unless you are running an XEmacs where the patch in
  http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-patches/200108/msg00023.html
has been applied.

Sorry for any confusion.

-Mark

Re: message-mode-map

[Vin Shelton]

Mark,
  Thanks for the info.  XEmacs folks, without Didier's patch:

    http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-patches/200108/msg00023.html

one can not build autoloads for gnus with XEmacs.

  - vin

Mark Thomas <swoon@bellatlantic.net> writes:

> I wrote:
>> From
>>   http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-beta/200107/msg00138.html
>> it looks like a patch was submitted to the gnus team last fall.
>
> I should be a bit more clear.
>
> A patch was submitted and it has been applied, so the autoloads that
> Gnus generates are correct.
>
> But Vin is attempting to use XEmacs to build the autoloads, and that
> will not work unless you are running an XEmacs where the patch in
>   http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-patches/200108/msg00023.html
> has been applied.
>
> Sorry for any confusion.
>
> -Mark
>
>
>

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