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From: ag@sics.se (Anders G|ransson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Problem with rmail (maybe saveconf)
Message-ID: <1990Jul9.173737.26777@sics.se>
Date: 9 Jul 90 17:37:37 GMT
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In-Reply-To: kjones@talos.pm.com's message of 9 Jul 90 14:14:48 GMT

>>>>> In article <1990Jul9.141448.15783@talos.pm.com>, kjones@talos.pm.com (Kyle Jones) writes:

kjones> Eric R. Feigenson writes:
 > I started using saveconf as someone recently suggested (I
 > didn't even know it was around!) with GNU Emacs 18.55.
 > However, as soon as I did I started having odd problems with
 > "rmail", which had been working perfectly.  It may be a
 > coincidence, but the problems started almost exactly at the
 > time I started using saveconf.
 > 
 > The problem is that as soon as I do a "M-x rmail" I get a message:
 > 
 > 	"Symbol's value as variable is void: rmail-inbox-list"

kjones> As I recall, the problem is with RMAIL.  If an uninitialized
kjones> ~/RMAIL file buffer exists when RMAIL is invoked, RMAIL will get
kjones> confused and die.

kjones> saveconf.el stimulates the bug as follows: You exit Emacs with a
kjones> ~/RMAIL buffer present.  You start a new Emacs session and
kjones> saveconf dutifully visits ~/RMAIL.  When you subsequently start
kjones> RMAIL it sees the buffer and (mistakenly) assumes that certain
kjones> local variables have been initialized.



I have the same problem (at least it seems to be related). I use
the code that was presented here some week ago. To be precise it 
looks like this;

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
;;Save buffer context so that the conf. shows upon entering emacs
(require 'saveconf)
(setq auto-save-and-recover-context t)
(setq save-buffer-context t)
(if (null (cdr command-line-args))
    (setq inhibit-startup-message (recover-context)))

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Since then the files are there when I enter emacs BUT the buffer has 
forgotten which mode it was in. For exampel, if I exit emacs (with C-x C-c)
from Rmail-mode, then when I enter emacs again there is the file RMAIL
but the buffer is now in Fundamental-mode. This is not what I hoped for!

There must be some way to tell emacs that the mode should be kept the same!


Please let me know!


Best regards  Anders




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  name(!): Anders G|ransson