Re: Upcoming 23.1 release

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Chong Yidong <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:51:21 -0400
> 
> The fix proposed by Richard involves changing an undocumented behavior
> of buffer-saved-size.  Previously, the documentation said that a value
> of -1 has a certain behavior, but actully any negative number does the
> same thing as -1; this patch changes things to treat -2 specially.  We
> can't install this without a significant amount of testing to see if
> this breaks anything.

Can't we have a magically-named buffer-local variable for the same
effect in fileio.c?  Then previous behavior would be left untouched,
and we won't need that much testing, as only Rmail would be affected.