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Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:

> I was wondering if the `mapcar' that gets invoked later might break
> something, since the reference to the ` *mm*' buffer will be put
> into the mime handle alist for future deletion, even though that
> buffer gets killed here.
> 
> However, I just now figured out that this is probably not a problem,
> since `mm-destroy-part' only does a `kill-buffer' if `buffer-live-p'
> succeeds on the buffer referenced in this alist.  Hence, in this
> case, we're safe to do the `kill-buffer' on the ` *mm*' buffer *and*
> to add a reference to this killed buffer to the alist.

Yup, that was exactly my reasoning.  Lars will be the final arbiter on 
this, of course.  When changing the code not all of which I
understand, I'm trying to change the least possible amount.

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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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