From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
To: Francis Litterio <flitterio@gmail.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Patch to message.el to allow saving multiple message buffers when Gnus not running
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:05:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871vzavita.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86od2ppaqs.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:41:47 -0500")
On Mon, Sep 15 2008, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:26:37 -0400 Francis Litterio <flitterio@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> FL> In Gnus in CVS Emacs, function message-set-auto-save-file-name (in
> FL> message.el) arranges for all message composition buffers to be saved to
> FL> the same disk file when Gnus has not been started. If two messages are
> FL> being composed at the same time, both will be saved to the same file.
>
> FL> This is at odds with how the same function saves multiple drafts of
> FL> outgoing messages in the drafts folder when Gnus has been started. The
> FL> below patch fixes this by changing message-set-auto-save-file to append
> FL> a unique timestamp to the name of the disk file for the message
> FL> composition buffer.
I'm not sure about the purpose of the current implementation. How is
the user supposed to recover the file(s) (without and with your
patch)?
> the patch looks good and I think using the time is reasonable to
> guarantee uniqueness. I'll use it for a few days and report if I have
> problems; have you been using it? I'd like to get at least one
> successful tester besides myself before I commit the patch.
>
> Also, do you have papers on file for Gnus?
He has.
> It's a tiny patch so I'm not sure of the procedure there;
Install it as a "tiny change", see the ChangeLogs for examples.
> if you plan to contribute in the future it would be great to have
> the assignment.
Bye, Reiner.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-23 18:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-12 16:26 Francis Litterio
2008-09-15 17:41 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-09-23 18:05 ` Reiner Steib [this message]
2008-09-25 13:04 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-09-25 16:58 ` Reiner Steib
2008-09-25 19:08 ` Francis Litterio
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