Re: message-add-action problem

[Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>]

>>>>> In <vxkacnsai8t.fsf@mesquite.charcoal.com> Karl Kleinpaste wrote:

> No Gnus v0.3, XEmacs 21.5.20.

> For a very long time, I've been doing message composition in a separate
> frame, using code I got from someone (unremembered, regrets) on this list:

>   ; destroy the composition frame on any kind of exit from composition.
>   (defun delete-frame-unless-tty ()
>          (if (equal (console-type) 'x)
>            (delete-frame)))
>   (message-add-action 'delete-frame-unless-tty 'exit 'postpone 'kill)

[...]

> However, since I upgraded to No v0.3, my message composition frames
> are not deleted on send/kill/postpone any more.

> message-mode's define-derived-mode in message.el is destroying the
> global value of message-*-actions by making them all locals and
> aggressively setting them to nil.  This can't possibly be correct,
> unless these variables were never meant to be user-accessible.  That
> was not my understanding.

AFAIK, message-*-actions were all buffer-local over nine years.

> When I tweak message-mode to re-assert those variables' values in the
> make-local, the basic idea seems to come back...except that it's my
> main Gnus frame that gets deleted, leaving the composition frame,
> exactly the wrong effect.  (But that frame now shows *Summary*.)

So, that is just what we have to do.  I'm sorry not to have time
to analyze your code, but I'm satisfied with mine:

ftp://ftp.jpl.org/pub/elisp/message-multiple-frames.el.gz
 or http://www.jpl.org/ftp/pub/elisp/message-multiple-frames.el.gz

It also might be incomplete, though.