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From: kjones@talos.UUCP (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: Re: saveconf.el
Message-ID: <528@talos.UUCP>
Date: 8 May 89 15:41:57 GMT
References: <PEARCE.89May4085439@tycho.yerkes.uchicago.edu>
Reply-To: kjones@talos.UUCP (Kyle Jones)
Organization: Philip Morris Research Center, Richmond, VA
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Eric C. Pearce writes:
 > I gave saveconf.el a try in 18.52.  It does not seem to correctly save
 > the context of a rmail buffer (probably because of all the narrowed
 > regions), with (save-buffer-context t).  The resulting in my mailbox
 > being muffed badly.
 > 
 > Am I missing something, or will rmail.el and saveconf.el just not get
 > along well.

I tried using RMAIL and saveconf and noted that the buffer and position
for ~/RMAIL were restored as advertised.  However the buffer was not put
into RMAIL mode.  When I ran M-x rmail to put the buffer in the right
major mode I get

Symbol's value as variable is void: rmail-inbox-list

which makes me think RMAIL doesn't expect the primary mail file
(rmail-file-name) to be already visited when RMAIL is run.  What kind of
lossage did you experience, Eric?