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What does "prepare article headers" mean in message-mode?


From: Vladimir Nikishkin
Subject: What does "prepare article headers" mean in message-mode?
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2020 09:54:46 +0800

Hello, everyone.

The docstring for `message-generate-headers' says:
`"Prepare article HEADERS.
Headers already prepared in the buffer are not modified."`

When I execute `(message-generate-headers '(Date Message-ID))`, for
example right while writing this message to help-gnu-emacs, both Date
and Message-ID are modified.

Apparently, "prepare" does not really mean "generate and insert".
What does it really mean?

Emacs 27.1

-- 
Vladimir Nikishkin (MiEr, lockywolf)
(Laptop)



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