Re: nnmaildir and XEmacs

[Michael Piotrowski <mxp@dynalabs.de>]

Hi,

I was on vacation, that's why my answer is a little late.

On 2006-10-10, Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> wrote:

>> I recently noticed that nnmaildir.el contains Emacs-specific code,
>
> Strange, this code is there since September 2002.

Well, yes.  I was puzzled, too, that nobody had run into it before.
However, the problem didn't occur immediately, only in some cases when
entering the group after its content had changed; maybe that's why
nobody had noticed it.  I started to use nnmaildir only recently for
Mairix search results, it's faster than nnmh and the article count is
correct.

>> namely calls to `write-region' where the seventh argument is used with
>> the semantics of "mustbenew", e.g.:
>> 
>>   (write-region (point-min) (point-max) file nil 'no-message nil 'excl)
>> 
>> On XEmacs however, the seventh argument is "coding-system".
>> Consequently, a call as above results in the error message "No such
>> coding system: excl" on XEmacs.
>
> Does this change (installed in trunk and v5-10) fix the problem as well?
>
> ,----
> | 2006-10-10  Reiner Steib  <Reiner.Steib@gmx.de>
> | 
> | 	* gmm-utils.el (gmm-write-region): New function based on compatibility
> | 	code from `mm-make-temp-file'.
> | 
> | 	* mm-util.el (mm-make-temp-file): Use `gmm-write-region'.
> | 
> | 	* nnmaildir.el (nnmaildir--update-nov)
> | 	(nnmaildir-request-replace-article, nnmaildir-request-accept-article):
> | 	Use `gmm-write-region'.
> `----

I've just updated to the latest trunk version, and yes, it seems to
work fine.  Thanks!

Greetings

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Michael Piotrowski, M.A.                               <mxp@dynalabs.de>
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