Re: Mail mode vs message mode

[Reiner Steib]

On Fri, Nov 20 2009, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:

> XEmacs is not special, there is no reason not to use the mail-*
> values.  In addition, there are some mail-* variables unavailable
> in old Emacsen that Gnus supports.  Is it ok to commit the following
> change?  The patch is attached in this message.

Seem correct to me, please install.  Maybe add a note about the
compatibility issues?

> I run `EMACS -batch -q' (where EMACS is Emacs 21.1, 21.2, 21.4,
> 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 23.1, 23.1.50, XEmacs 21.4.22, 21.5-b29 and
> SXEmacs 22.1.11) with the following script:
>
> (princ emacs-version)
> (princ "\n")
> (dolist (var '(mail-from-style
[...]
>              mail-specify-envelope-from))
>   (unless (boundp var)
>     (princ var)
>     (princ "\n")))

Could you also check if any default value of the message-FOO variables
are modified by deriving them from mail-FOO in these Emacsen?

Bye, Reiner.
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