bug#2137: 23.0.60; Saving Rmail buffer does not show the "Saving file ..." message

[Stefan Monnier]

> An Rmail-specific binding for C-x C-s is not enough to make saving
> work correctly.  Users can save the file through C-x s also, and other
> commands too.  The common mechanism for these commands is
> `save-buffer'; whatever makes them save the right text has to work
> inside there.

save-buffer is not enough either in order to handle `autosave' (which
was the original reason for my using write-region-annotate-functions
rather than write-contents-functions).

>     The simplest fix is to simply always output the message rather than only
>     for files larger than 50KB.
> That would be easy, but not quite the most convenient behavior.

What would be the harm?


        Stefan