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#1997
23.0.60; write-region fails in pmail
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Reported by: rms <at> gnu.org
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:30:03 UTC
Severity: normal
Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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#1997: 23.0.60; write-region fails in pmail
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> No, it's just due to people wasting time trying to reinvent the wheel
> rather than read the sample code in tar-mode.el.
My mistake: I forgot to switch rmail-write-region-annotate back to its
"canonical" form after I finished debugging why it wasn't working.
In other words, the axle was broken, and I fixed it---but I forgot to
put the normal wheels back on.
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I use this function to write HTML code from certain messages:
(defun lynx ()
(interactive)
(unless (re-search-backward "^From wget <at> gnu.org" nil t)
(goto-char (point-min)))
(save-excursion
(search-forward "/bin/sh")
(forward-line 3)
(let ((start (point)))
(search-forward "!EOF!")
(beginning-of-line)
(write-region start (point) "~/foo.html"))))
Instead of writing from the view buffer as it used to,
it now writes from the mbox buffer. It writes the WHOLE mbox.
I presume this is due to the changes to use an existing hook and its
warts, instead of a feature designed to be simple to use for this job.
I verified that pmail-write-region-annotate was called with arguments
369 87214.
Any attempt to write part of the view buffer into a file
has the same problem.
In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.17 (mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.11)
of 2009-01-22 on lemote-yeeloong
configured using `configure 'CFLAGS=-O0 -g -Wno-pointer-sign' 'mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu' 'build_alias=mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu' 'target_alias=mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu''
Important settings:
value of $LC_ALL: nil
value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
value of $LC_TIME: nil
value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
Major mode: Mail
Minor modes in effect:
gpm-mouse-mode: t
tooltip-mode: t
tool-bar-mode: t
menu-bar-mode: t
file-name-shadow-mode: t
global-font-lock-mode: t
font-lock-mode: t
global-auto-composition-mode: t
auto-composition-mode: t
auto-encryption-mode: t
auto-compression-mode: t
line-number-mode: t
transient-mark-mode: t
abbrev-mode: t
Recent input:
ESC x p m a i l RET C-x k RET ESC x ESC p RET C-x 1
C-d C-d x C-x C-s ESC x l y n x RET ESC x l y C-g C-x
= ESC x l y n x RET C-x C-f . m a i l ESC DEL e m a
c s RET C-s f u n SPC l y n x C-a C-@ C-u C-n C-u C-n
C-n C-n C-n ESC w C-x 4 m C-u C-n C-u C-y C-u C-p C-e
ESC x r e p o r t SPC e m a c s SPC b u g RET
Recent messages:
0 new messages read
Expunging deleted messages...done
Saving file /home/rms/PMAIL...
Wrote /home/rms/PMAIL
Wrote /home/rms/foo.html
Quit
Char: T (84, #o124, #x54) point=1 of 87233 (0%) column=0
Wrote /home/rms/foo.html
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