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Re: Rmail conversion misfeature
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Glenn Morris |
Subject: |
Re: Rmail conversion misfeature |
Date: |
Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:25:34 -0400 |
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Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Richard M Stallman wrote:
> Querying before converting a Babyl file is misguided feature.
> There is no way to proceed except to convert it.
Why not add a defcustom controlling this:
nil don't convert, just visit literally
t convert without asking
anything else ask
When asking, it could offer you the choice to set said defcustom to
either t or nil (similar to how unsafe file local variables get handled).
> I can envision a better way to achieve that goal: (1) mark the
> buffer unmodified after conversion, and (2) change the operations
> that would modify the buffer first warn you and query. That feature
> won't cause any hassles just to look at the file, but when you try
> to alter it, you will be notified that this would result in changing
> its format when you save the changes.
That seems a bit complicated.