Re: *message* buffers have lost the `C-c C-a' binding

[torkel <torkel@hpc2n.umu.se>]

dsg@mitre.org (David S. Goldberg) writes:

> This is really strange.  mail-interactive-insert-alias is part of
> mail-abbrevs and message.el does run mail-abbrev-setup after setting
> up message-mode-map.  The weird thing is, according to a diff of the
> cvs sources, that has been the case for several versions.  I can't see
> anything in the latest diff that would change that.

Following patch, reverting part of Dave Love's cleanup, fixes the
problem:

Index: message.el
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/gnus/lisp/message.el,v
retrieving revision 5.121
diff -u -r5.121 message.el
--- message.el	2000/07/02 10:03:03	5.121
+++ message.el	2000/07/05 22:11:49
@@ -35,6 +35,9 @@
   (defvar gnus-list-identifiers))	; gnus-sum is required where necessary
 (require 'mailheader)
 (require 'nnheader)
+(if (string-match "XEmacs\\|Lucid" emacs-version)
+    (require 'mail-abbrevs)
+      (require 'mailabbrev))
 (require 'mail-parse)
 (require 'mml)


Probably not the right thing to do, but solves the problem for now. 

/torkel