Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!bellcore!petrus!scherzo!allegra!mit-eddie!rms@mit-prep From: rms@mit-prep Newsgroups: net.emacs Subject: Important patch to rmail.el in 16.60 Message-ID: <36@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Tue, 8-Oct-85 18:23:04 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.36 Posted: Tue Oct 8 18:23:04 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Oct-85 07:43:06 EDT Sender: nessus@mit-eddi.UUCP Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 18 From: Richard M. Stallman In rmail-insert-inbox-text, change the lines (progn (skip-chars-backward " \t\n") ; chomper might have munged (delete-region (dot) (dot-max)) ; require-final-newline (insert-file-contents tofile) ; in a hook or elsewhere. (setq delete-files (cons tofile delete-files)))) to (progn (goto-char (dot-max)) (insert-file-contents tofile) (goto-char (dot-max)) (or (= (preceding-char) ?\n) (insert ?\n)) (setq delete-files (cons tofile delete-files)))) This avoids the loss of mail when there are multiple inboxes!