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23.0.91; RMAIL summary not in step with main file

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Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: jpff <jpff <at> codemist.co.uk>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.0.91; RMAIL summary not in step with main file
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:33:26 +0000

Reading a mail file I deleted most of them and then saved.  The
-summary window still showed the headings with messages marked as
deleted when they had been expunged.  This is a change from recent versions


In GNU Emacs 23.0.91.22 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.0)
 of 2009-03-18 on cardew
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.70200000
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_GB.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=local
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  auto-image-file-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-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

Recent input:
b <return> <left> <left> + 1 C-x C-s C-x b <return> 
s C-x k <return> C-x C-f J u n <tab> <return> M-x r 
m <tab> a <tab> - m <tab> o <tab> <return> h C-x C-f 
S P <tab> A <tab> <return> <down> 1 2 9 + C-x b <return> 
<escape> < <down> <down> <down> <down> d d d d d d 
d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d 
d d d SPC d SPC d d d d d d d SPC d d d d d d d d d 
d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d 
d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d 
d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d SPC SPC d < 
<down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-1> 
M-s @ c o d e m i s t <return> M-s <return> C-o / m 
n t / s b o u t <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> n o u t / h o m <tab> j p f f / S P A <tab> 
M a <tab> <return> t <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <drag-mouse-1> M-s <return> t M-s 
<return> s y C-x b <return> <next> <backspace> - 4 
+ 6 5 <return> 2 1 SPC M a r SPC 2 0 0 9 : <tab> <backspace> 
SPC <return> C-x b <return> s C-x k <return> M-m C-x 
k <return> M-x r e p o r <tab> <return>

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Rmail search for @codemist...
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Erase deleted messages from Rmail file? (y or n) 
Expunging deleted messages...done
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Wrote /home/jpff/Junky
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==John ffitch

Message #10 received at 2707 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 2707 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jpff <jpff <at> codemist.co.uk>
Subject: Re: bug#2707: 23.0.91; RMAIL summary not in step with main file
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:35:17 -0400

jpff wrote:

> Reading a mail file I deleted most of them and then saved.  The
> -summary window still showed the headings with messages marked as
> deleted when they had been expunged.

(You need to use `s' rather than `x' to see this problem.)

This is a consequence of the following change. Now rmail-expunge does
not update the summary if called with dont-show non-nil.


2009-03-16  Richard M Stallman  <rms at gnu.org>

* mail/rmail.el (rmail-expunge): Show the message only once, and only
  if needed. If the current message was current before, just re-swap.

Message #15 received at 2707 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Richard M Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 2707 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jpff <at> codemist.co.uk
Subject: Re: bug#2707: 23.0.91; RMAIL summary not in step with main file
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:18:52 -0400

    This is a consequence of the following change. Now rmail-expunge does
    not update the summary if called with dont-show non-nil.

When DONT-SHOW is non-nil, should rmail-expunge do this, or should the
caller do it?

The reason I am not sure is that the code seems to expect that summary
manipulation to also do the job of showing the message, and DONT-SHOW
says not to do that.

Message #18 received at 2707 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: rms <at> gnu.org
Cc: 2707 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jpff <at> codemist.co.uk
Subject: Re: bug#2707: 23.0.91; RMAIL summary not in step with main file
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:31:12 -0400

Richard M Stallman wrote:

> When DONT-SHOW is non-nil, should rmail-expunge do this, or should the
> caller do it?

Doesn't matter much. rmail-expunge is only used in two places in all
of Emacs (rmail-expunge-and-save and rmail-quit). Both currently
expect it to update any summary, but it's easy to change.

> The reason I am not sure is that the code seems to expect that summary
> manipulation to also do the job of showing the message, and DONT-SHOW
> says not to do that.

The DONT-SHOW argument is new (and undocumented...), so you can make
it do whatever you like.

Message #23 received at 2707 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Richard M Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, 2707 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: 2707 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jpff <at> codemist.co.uk
Subject: Re: bug#2707: 23.0.91; RMAIL summary not in step with main file
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:03:37 -0400

I fixed that.  Could you close the bug report?

Message #28 received at 2707-done <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: rms <at> gnu.org
Cc: 2707-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#2707: 23.0.91; RMAIL summary not in step with main file
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:15:52 -0400

Richard M Stallman wrote:

> I fixed that.  Could you close the bug report?

Thanks. You close something by sending a mail to "###-done", where ###
is the bug number. Eg in this case, I sent this mail to:

2707-done at debbugs.gnu.org

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