bug#1997: marked as done (23.0.60; write-region fails in pmail)

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has caused the Emacs bug report #1997,
regarding 23.0.60; write-region fails in pmail
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> 23.0.60; write-region fails in pmail
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> Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:18:59 -0500
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> I use this function to write HTML code from certain messages:
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> (defun lynx ()
>   (interactive)
>   (unless (re-search-backward "^From wget@gnu.org" nil t)
>     (goto-char (point-min)))
>   (save-excursion
>     (search-forward "/bin/sh")
>     (forward-line 3)
>     (let ((start (point)))
>       (search-forward "!EOF!")
>       (beginning-of-line)
>       (write-region start (point) "~/foo.html"))))
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> Instead of writing from the view buffer as it used to,
> it now writes from the mbox buffer.  It writes the WHOLE mbox.
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> I presume this is due to the changes to use an existing hook and its
> warts, instead of a feature designed to be simple to use for this job.
> I verified that pmail-write-region-annotate was called with arguments
> 369 87214.
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> Any attempt to write part of the view buffer into a file
> has the same problem.
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> In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.17 (mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.11)
>  of 2009-01-22 on lemote-yeeloong
> configured using `configure  'CFLAGS=-O0 -g -Wno-pointer-sign' 
> 'mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu' 'build_alias=mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu' 
> 'host_alias=mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu' 'target_alias=mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu''
>
> Important settings:
>   value of $LC_ALL: nil
>   value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
>   value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
>   value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
>   value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
>   value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
>   value of $LC_TIME: nil
>   value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
>   value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
>   locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
>   default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
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> Major mode: Mail
>
> Minor modes in effect:
>   gpm-mouse-mode: t
>   tooltip-mode: t
>   tool-bar-mode: t
>   menu-bar-mode: t
>   file-name-shadow-mode: t
>   global-font-lock-mode: t
>   font-lock-mode: t
>   global-auto-composition-mode: t
>   auto-composition-mode: t
>   auto-encryption-mode: t
>   auto-compression-mode: t
>   line-number-mode: t
>   transient-mark-mode: t
>   abbrev-mode: t
>
> Recent input:
> ESC x p m a i l RET C-x k RET ESC x ESC p RET C-x 1 
> C-d C-d x C-x C-s ESC x l y n x RET ESC x l y C-g C-x 
> = ESC x l y n x RET C-x C-f . m a i l ESC DEL e m a 
> c s RET C-s f u n SPC l y n x C-a C-@ C-u C-n C-u C-n 
> C-n C-n C-n ESC w C-x 4 m C-u C-n C-u C-y C-u C-p C-e 
> ESC x r e p o r t SPC e m a c s SPC b u g RET
>
> Recent messages:
> 0 new messages read
> Expunging deleted messages...done
> Saving file /home/rms/PMAIL...
> Wrote /home/rms/PMAIL
> Wrote /home/rms/foo.html
> Quit
> Char: T (84, #o124, #x54) point=1 of 87233 (0%) column=0
> Wrote /home/rms/foo.html
> Mark saved where search started
> Mark set [2 times]
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> Re: bug#1997: 23.0.60; write-region fails in pmail
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> Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:17:29 -0500
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> > No, it's just due to people wasting time trying to reinvent the wheel
> > rather than read the sample code in tar-mode.el.
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> My mistake: I forgot to switch rmail-write-region-annotate back to its
> "canonical" form after I finished debugging why it wasn't working.
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> In other words, the axle was broken, and I fixed it---but I forgot to
> put the normal wheels back on.
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