Re: message-mode is now default?

[David Kastrup]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii writes:
>
>  > There are quite a few people who use the development branch for their
>  > day-to-day work.  Breaking their MUA, which is by far the most
>  > frequently used Emacs application, should not be done easily.
>
> Changing the default doesn't break Mail mode at all!
>
> What it does is require one who wants to use Mail mode in the
> customary way to put his cursor at the end of the following sexp and
> type C-x C-e:
>
> (progn
>   (find-file user-init-file)
>   (save-excursion
>     (goto-char (point-min))
>     (insert "(setq mail-user-agent 'sendmail-user-agent)\n"))
>   (save-buffer)
>   (setq mail-user-agent 'sendmail-user-agent)
>   (message "init file edited; please review for style and/or VC commit."))
>
> (Note!  GPL-licensed code, with emphasis on the NO WARRANTEE clause.)

What's wrong with

M-x customize-variable RET mail-user-agent RET

-- 
David Kastrup