GNU bug report logs - #19068
Mail file vars aren't derived from customized message-directory

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Packages: emacs, gnus;

Reported by: "Kelly Dean" <kelly <at> prtime.org>

Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 12:24:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: notabug

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Kelly Dean <kelly <at> prtime.org>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: Mail file vars aren't derived from customized message-directory
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 18:09:14 +0200

> From: "Kelly Dean" <kelly <at> prtime.org>
> Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 11:27:23 +0000
> 
> Also,
> grep -r "~/Mail/" emacs-24.4/lisp/ | grep 'el:'
> gives 19 hits, all of which are inappropriate if ~/Mail isn't supposed to be hardcoded. If ~/Mail is supposed to be hardcoded, then the message-directory variable should be removed, to avoid misleading users.

This is a red herring: all of these hits are either in comments or in
default values of other defcustoms.
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