GNU bug report logs - #10082
23.3; many Rmail commands fail to do the right thing on an empty inbox [MINOR]

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: mark.lillibridge <at> hp.com

Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 23:52:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 23.3

Fixed in version 24.0.92

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Mark Lillibridge <mark.lillibridge <at> hp.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.3; many Rmail commands fail to do the right thing on an empty inbox
	[MINOR]
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:49:32 -0800

    Visit an empty Rmail inbox.  Hit '.' and notice a reasonable "No
mail." error message.  This is reasonable behavior.  A few of the other
Rmail commands also produce reasonable error messages; for example, M-m
produces "Cannot parse this as a failure message".

    However, the following commands do not produce a reasonable error
message and fail after asking for input with weird error messages like 
Search failed: "

":

f, o, C-o, k, a, w

A check for no message should probably be added to these commands.

- Mark
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