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From: Francis Litterio <flitterio@gmail.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Cc: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
Subject: Re: Patch to message.el to allow saving multiple message buffers when Gnus not running
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:08:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <wk4p44yr77.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ljxgnowc.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (Reiner Steib's message of "Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:58:27 +0200")

Reiner Steib wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 25 2008, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 Reiner Steib wrote: 
>> RS> On Mon, Sep 15 2008, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 Francis Litterio 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.

That was my thinking.  I considered saving different buffers to the same
file to be a bug.  I wasn't architecting some grand solution -- just
trying to keep the user's on-disk copies of messages from being trashed.

>> 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.

I use Message mode to compose both mail messages and news postings.
It's simply that, if Gnus has not been started, Message mode has this
bug.
--
Fran



      reply	other threads:[~2008-09-25 19:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-12 16:26 Francis Litterio
2008-09-15 17:41 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-09-23 18:05   ` Reiner Steib
2008-09-25 13:04     ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-09-25 16:58       ` Reiner Steib
2008-09-25 19:08         ` Francis Litterio [this message]

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