Re: VM on Emacs 26?

[Pieter van Oostrum]

Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> writes:

> I don't use vm a ton anymore, just to work through the unsure messages held
> by SpamBayes for mail.python.org. Alas, upgrading from Emacs 25 to 26 the
> other day seems to have borked vm. I do have it installed on my Ubuntu
> 18.04 system:
>
> vm/bionic,bionic,now 8.2.0b-2.1 all [installed]
>   mail user agent for Emacs
>
> but Emacs 26 is clearly not finding it. Any suggestions?
>
> Skip

I have been running VM for a long time on Emacs 26, and now on Emacs 27. It is 
my main email reader/writer. It is just running fine.

I got it from the trunk on launchpad  https://launchpad.net/vm/trunk with bzr.
I just put the whole directory in my site-lisp (on my mac that is 
~/Library/Application Support/Emacs/site-lisp/vm-trunk/lisp), but on your Linux 
system it will surely be somewhere else.

I only had to apply a patch to get it working.

--- lisp/vm-mime.el     2013-02-15 08:44:48 +0000
+++ lisp/vm-mime.el     2013-06-02 14:46:59 +0000
@@ -1088,7 +1088,7 @@
     (save-excursion
       (setq start (point-min))
       (while (not done)
-       (setq charset (get-text-property start 'vm-charset))
+       (setq charset (or (get-text-property start 'vm-charset) "us-ascii"))
        (setq pos (next-single-property-change start 'vm-charset))
        (or pos (setq pos (point-max) done t))
        (if charset

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