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Re: bug#19068: Mail file vars aren't derived from customized message-dir
From: |
Kelly Dean |
Subject: |
Re: bug#19068: Mail file vars aren't derived from customized message-directory |
Date: |
Thu, 29 Jan 2015 10:59:05 +0000 |
Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> That's the wrong way to set variables that have other variables that
> depend on them.
>
> Instead say
>
> (setq message-directory "~/mail/")
> (require 'message)
And what if you happened to previously require something that already required
message? Do you want to require users to always put all their «setq»s before
all their «require»s, just in case?
Or what if you were already using message mode with the default directory
settings, but then you decided to change it and customize message-directory
using Emacs's customization feature, and read the help page that says
⌜Directory from which all other mail file variables are derived⌝? Would you not
expect that when you change a top-level directory, the directories under it
remain under it? After all, that's the way «mv» behaves.
- Re: bug#19068: Mail file vars aren't derived from customized message-directory,
Kelly Dean <=