Re: Upcoming 23.1 release

[Chong Yidong]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>    C-u M-x rmail RET SOME-mbox-FILE RET
>    e
>    M-x auto-save-mode
>    <make some edits>
>
> After that, wait for auto-save-timeout seconds, and you will see the
> bug.  (It could be that you need a sufficiently large mbox file, to
> trigger this.)

OK, this I can reproduce.

With Richard's changes, the auxilliary buffer containing the mbox data
is auto-saved, but this buffer does *not* contain the text that's being
edited in the RMAIL buffer.  So nothing's gained in this case.

To fix this case, the annotation functions might detect that rmail-edit
is in effect, and DTRT so that only the presently edited message is
auto-saved.

But it seems that Richard's concern is with rmail-output, not
rmail-edit.