Subject: bug#2941: rmail's new handling of Babyl files is odd

From: Richard M Stallman <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:15:04 -0400

For all these reasons, I suggest it would be better to prompt
    immediately after the "e" key is pressed, before the edit buffer is
    created.

I agree, and I will make that change.