Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA!jfjr From: jfjr@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA (Freedman) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: It works!! but why Message-ID: <8805201800.AA14138@mitre-bedford.ARPA> Date: 20 May 88 18:00:01 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 18 The solution to my problem - go straigt to rmail-summary with rmail that I received from Mark. Eichin works - he recommends blushingly (don't be that way Mark we all do things we should be ashamed of ;} ) ( setq rmail-mode-hook (function (lambda () (setq unread-command-char ?h)))) It works fine but why didn't my attempts work ;bumblingly (setq rmail-mode-hook 'rmail-summary); with similar clumsy variations Jerry Freedman, Jr "Does Unix have jfjr@mitre-bedford.arpa a Buddha nature?" (617)271-4563