Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] emacs: Let the user choose where to compose new mails

Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] emacs: Let the user choose where to compose new mails

Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:12:36 -0300

To: Thomas Jost, Jameson Graef Rollins, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: David Bremner

Thomas Jost <schnouki@schnouki.net> writes:
> AFAICT, Emacs 23 is just buggy in this case. By reading the code of
> message-send-and-exit and message-bury [1], here is what happens when
> you call message-send-buffer-and-exit with message-kill-buffer-on-exit
> set to nil:
> - message is sent
> - buffer is buried with burry-buffer
> - message-bury: if the window is dedicated and its frame not the only
>   visible frame, then this frame is deleted

OK, I guess I can live with the behaviour as an emacs 23 bug, but I
think we should warn the user of this bug somewhere prominently, perhaps
in the customize message. Effectively users of emacs23 and emacsclient
will probably want to avoid the "new-window" setting.

d

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