Re: draft group weirdness

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> On Wed, Apr 06 2011, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>
>> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>>
>>> I've been having a lot of trouble with the drafts group recently. I
>>> save drafts, go back into the drafts folder, hit 'e' to edit a message,
>>> and it asks me for a file to save into.
>>
>> That's bizarre.  (setq debug-on-quit t) and `C-g' when it prompts, so
>> that we can see what function you're calling with `e'.

I think I found the culprit here: window configuration. Doesn't make a
whole lot of sense, but neither did the error to begin with. I had a
three-pane thing going on, and I recently got rid of it because it was
such a pain to manually move point to the composition buffer when
replying to messages.

After I went back to the default, my draft strangeness went away.
Editing a draft multiple times still creates multiple editing buffers
for that message, but maybe that's normal.

It also cleared up another, equally weird problem: my mairix search
results folder was appearing in random places in the filesystem. My org
directory, recent directories I'd been working in, other places gnus had
no business knowing about… My eventual sense was that my last 'pwd'
location before switching to gnus was somehow hanging around and getting
substituted for gnus' base directory. This is mostly useless as a bug
report, I know, but I can't help mentioning it.

It's all very magical, but that's why I love emacs/gnus…

Eric