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Re: Rmail conversion misfeature
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Rmail conversion misfeature |
Date: |
Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:10:53 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux) |
> Querying before converting a Babyl file is misguided feature.
> There is no way to proceed except to convert it.
> I think the motive for this was to help people avoid
> unwittingly rewriting Babyl files in mbox format.
> I see the desirability of that goal, but this cure is
> worse than the disease. I plan to delete it.
> I can envision a better way to achieve that goal: (1) mark the buffer
> unmodified after conversion, and (2) change the operations that would
> modify the buffer first warn you and query. That feature won't cause
> any hassles just to look at the file, but when you try to alter it,
> you will be notified that this would result in changing its format
> when you save the changes.
That sounds good. The only downside I could imagine is if you look at
this file repeatedly without ever modifying it, and it's large enough
that conversion takes a non-negligible time. Not sure how likely is such
a scenario.
Stefan