On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, mjchan inbox wrote:

> With latest CVS emasc I upgraded to last week, I found that VM would
> no longer be able to "recover-file" from an auto-saved copy
> properly. After further investigation, VM would not proceed with
> recovering because the major mode (VM mode) was reset to text-mode
> during the recovery in normal-mode (in files.el). 

Do you have default-major-mode set to text-mode? I have a similar
issue with recovering in vm but in my case (reported on the
gnu.emacs.vm.bug list as news:[EMAIL PROTECTED])
I was seeing it set to fundamental-mode - which is my default-major-mode

> 
> I found an entry in ChangeLog made by RMS on Aug. 9th that may be
> related:
> 
>       (normal-mode): Always set some major mode.
> 

I first spotted the issue in Sept 2005 which makes your diagnosis
likely to be correct

Robert
-- 
La grenouille songe..dans son château d'eau



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