Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rpi!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!mrd From: mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Michael DeCorte) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Subject: rmail and mail-archive-file-name Message-ID: Date: 3 Apr 89 22:01:48 GMT Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Postdam NY Lines: 34 18.51 I don't want to say this is a bug but it does break the law of least astonishment. Assume (setq mail-archive-file-name "~/.outgoing") THE SCENARIO: (1) Load .outgoing into a buffer Edit it then save it, or perhaps just look at it, it doesn't matter. (2) Mail someone a message. (3) Mail someone else a message. Error message reported File has changed on disk; really want to edit buffer (y, n or C-h) the message is refering to the .outgoing buffer but does not say so (be nice if it did). Either way this is a little odd and there is no really good way out of it. If you answer y then you loose the copy of the last message sent out. If you answer n then you can't mail your message. -- Michael DeCorte // (315)265-2439 // P.O. Box 652, Potsdam, NY 13676 Internet: mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu // Bitnet: mrd@clutx.bitnet --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clarkson Archive Server // commands = help, index, send, path archive-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu archive-server%sun.soe.clarkson.edu@omnigate.bitnet dumb1!dumb2!dumb3!smart!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!archive-server ---------------------------------------------------------------------------