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From: kjones@talos.uucp (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Question about VM 4.11
Message-ID: <1989Sep18.131903.18360@talos.uucp>
Date: 18 Sep 89 13:19:03 GMT
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S. Luke Jones writes about VM 4.11:
 > Has there been a new release since then?  Because I ran across
 > several bugs in just a short time playing with it.  E.g.,
 >   => typing 'h' for a summary of headers appears to screw up
 >      something internally because most commands don't work
 >      after that.

It sounds like you're using a pre-18.51 version of GNU Emacs.  The
failure of `h' (vm-summarize) is the most visible indication of trouble,
but there are other more subtle problems.

 >   => doing (something) resulted in an emacs-error about the
 >      variable 'defautl-directory':  a spelling error in a
 >      variable name.

This sounds more like VM 4.10 than 4.11.  "(something)" was probably
`s' (vm-save-message).  The typo was missed because it only causes trouble
if vm-folder-directory is nil, and I can't think of anyone who doesn't
use a folder directory.

In any case the latest version of VM is 4.41.