GNU bug report logs - #17175
24.3.50; continuing mail doesn't select "unsent mail" buffers

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Ken Olum <kdo <at> cosmos.phy.tufts.edu>
Cc: 17175 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17175: 24.3.50; continuing mail doesn't select "unsent mail" buffers
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 18:07:06 +0100

Ken Olum <kdo <at> cosmos.phy.tufts.edu> writes:

> If message-generate-new-buffers is 'unsent (the default in 24.3), then
> messages being composed go in buffers beginning "*unsent mail".  But if
> you try to continue sending mail, you don't get such buffers selected
> but rather a new buffer created called "*mail*".
>
> To reproduce:
>
> emacs -Q
> C-x m
> C-u C-x m

Yes, as far as I can tell, Message doesn't support "continuing" editing
a message at all.  It's a slightly indeterminate thing to do as you may
be editing a number of messages, but I guess the DWIM thing to do would
be to select the most recently unsent Message buffer?  I'll make that
change.

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