I plan to make buffer-offer-save a permanent local. This already has Richard's approval. It means that it will, as a matter of principle, no longer be appropriate for major modes to set buffer-offer-save, regardless of whether doing so produces any concrete user visible bugs.
Grepping shows that the only affected modes are mail-mode, message-mode and mh-folder-mode, which set buffer-offer-save to t. The solution for that is to set buffer-offer-save to t in `compose-mail' and no longer set it in the individual mail modes. I checked that this works for mail-mode and message-mode. I could not check it for mh-folder-mode, but I guess that it must work, since it works through `compose-mail'. For mail-mode there is no problem. For message-mode and mh-folder-mode, I was wondering. I know that the gnus directory is automatically synched, but I do not know whether the version of gnus included with CVS Emacs is also supposed to work with prior Emacs versions or with XEmacs. For mh-e, I have no idea whatsoever how it is supposed to be handled. If conditionals would be required, things might look somewhat strange, because setting buffer-offer-save would still be harmless, even in Emacs 22. The only problem is that major modes are not supposed to touch permanent locals. Sincerely, Luc. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
