Re: nnmail-split-fancy-match-partial-words

[Fabrice Popineau <Fabrice.Popineau@supelec.fr>]

* Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

    Fabrice>  - (set-file-modes filename nnmail-default-file-modes))) +
    Fabrice>  (gnus-set-file-modes filename nnmail-default-file-modes)))
    Fabrice>  I think it should be applied anyway.  mail-source.el and
    Fabrice>  mm-decode.el also use set-file-modes.

    Reiner>  I didn't investigate the callers, but maybe it *should*
    Reiner>  give an error if the modes cannot be set appropriately.
    Reiner>  (Shouldn't the respective (X)Emacs function care for those
    Reiner>  file system / operation system details?)

The problem is that up to now, there were places where
#'gnus-set-file-modes was used and others where #'set-file-modes was
used. My point is that the same function should be used everywhere.

    Reiner>  *time passes* ...  After reading the discussion
    Reiner>  <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/57528>, I
    Reiner>  think we should change `gnus-set-file-modes' as follows...

Seems ok to me. Your flag gnus-ignore-set-file-modes-errors should be t
on win32 native (don't know about cygwin).

Best,

Fabrice