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From: kjones@talos.uucp (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: save-context-predicate in saveconf.el
Message-ID: <1989Jul25.145204.3015@talos.uucp>
Date: 25 Jul 89 14:52:04 GMT
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Gilbert Harman writes:
 > This is what I tried in my .emacs file so as to prevent my
 > RMAIL file from being remembered.
 > 
 > (setq save-context-predicate
 >   (function (lambda (w)
 > 	      (and (buffer-file-name (window-buffer w))
 > 		   (not (string-match "\\(^\\(/usr\\)?/tmp/\\)\\|RMAIL"
 > 				      (buffer-file-name (window-buffer w)))))))
 > )

This won't work unless the RMAIL buffer is in a window.  The value of
save-context-predicate is called for each *window*, not each buffer.
Perhaps save-context-predicate's semantics should be changed to the
latter.