Re: Patch to message.el to allow saving multiple message buffers when Gnus not running

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Thu, Sep 25 2008, Ted Zlatanov wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> wrote: 
> RS> On Mon, Sep 15 2008, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
>>> On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 Francis Litterio <flitterio@gmail.com> wrote: 
> 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.
>
> RS> I'm not sure about the purpose of the current implementation.  How is
> RS> the user supposed to recover the file(s) (without and with your
> RS> patch)?
>
> I think it simply provides a fallback in case of an emergency.  I don't
> really know what a user-side function to recover from those files would
> do.  Open the files in message-mode?  All of them?  Then what?

I never use message mode without Gnus (except for testing) so I'd like
to gather some information from users (like Francis maybe?) who do
this regularly.

[Moving this to the this thread:]

On Thu, Sep 25 2008, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
> RS> You also checked in an unrelated change: Francis Litterio's patch.
> I was testing with it for a while and missed it.  I added a ChangeLog
> entry but I can't disassociate the old commit.  

The other possibility would be to revert this part of the commit.

> I hope it's OK as it stands now.

Okay.

Bye, Reiner.
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