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

[torkel <torkel@pellefant.acc.umu.se>]

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