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

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

[Karl Kleinpaste]

In the latest CVS (July 06 ~9:30am), my *message* buffers have lost
the `C-c C-a' keybinding to attach files.  `C-h m' (mode help) still
claims it ought to exist...

       C-c C-a  mml-attach-file (attach a file as MIME).

...but `C-c C-a' now runs mail-interactive-insert-alias.

"mail-interactive-insert-alias" doesn't appear in any Gnus *.el.  And
there is still a define-key for mml-attach-file in message.el.

How can this keybinding be missing?

My environment makes no changes to *message* keybindings at all.

(XEmacs 21.2.b31)

--karl

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

[Nevin Kapur]

>>>>> "KK" == Karl Kleinpaste <karl@charcoal.com> writes:

 KK> In the latest CVS (July 06 ~9:30am), my *message* buffers have
 KK> lost the `C-c C-a' keybinding to attach files. 
 [...]
 KK> (XEmacs 21.2.b31)

I see the same behavior on XEmacs 21.1.10. `M-m f' still works.

-- 
Nevin

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

[David S. Goldberg]

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

[Kai Großjohann]

Karl Kleinpaste <karl@charcoal.com> writes:

> ...but `C-c C-a' now runs mail-interactive-insert-alias.

Hm.  This sounds like a mail-mode-map binding.  Is this true?  I
wonder why message mode now uses mail mode bindings?

kai
-- 
I like BOTH kinds of music.

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

[torkel]

Karl Kleinpaste <karl@charcoal.com> writes:

> In the latest CVS (July 06 ~9:30am), my *message* buffers have lost
> the `C-c C-a' keybinding to attach files.  `C-h m' (mode help) still
> claims it ought to exist...
> 
>        C-c C-a  mml-attach-file (attach a file as MIME).
> 
> ...but `C-c C-a' now runs mail-interactive-insert-alias.
> 
> "mail-interactive-insert-alias" doesn't appear in any Gnus *.el.  And
> there is still a define-key for mml-attach-file in message.el.

It comes from the (XEmacs) mail-lib package, mail-abbrevs.el. 

> How can this keybinding be missing?

Because of this:

2000-06-26  Dave Love  <fx@gnu.org>

        * mm-decode.el (mm-image-fit-p): Use `image-size' in Emacs. 

        * message.el: Remove unnecessary `require'ments.  Defvar
        gnus-list-identifiers when compiling.  Don't try to autoload
        variable `gnus-list-identifiers'.  Autoload
        gnus-group-name-charset.
        (message-fetch-field): Don't assume `format' removes text
        properties.
        (message-strip-list-identifiers, message-reply, message-followup):
        Require gnus-sum.
        (message-mode): Tidy XEmacs conditionals.
        (message-replace-chars-in-string): Use subst-char-in-string when
        available.

Nowdays, message is loaded before mail-abbrevs, and therefore the
binding of C-c C-a is the one from mail-abbrevs. 

You can probably solve it by explicit load mail-abbrevs before gnus (I
have not tried)

/torkel

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

[torkel]

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