GNU bug report logs - #7987
message-mode perhaps to document more that it expects mail-header-separator

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Jesse Sheidlower <jester <at> panix.com>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, 7987 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7987: 23.2; Refill error in message-mode
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 20:58:17 -0500

> Well, I don't truly know how common this use-case is (though it's common
> enough that the EmacsWiki entry for Mutt and Emacs provides a
> workaround), but maybe it would also be good to be able to have
> message-mode accept the fact that you're editing a message body only? I
> personally don't use message-mode for the actual sending of messages,
> and in general I'd think that there could be reasons for wanting the
> editing and formatting features of message-mode without the sending
> features. Being able to say explicitly that you're editing the body

AFAIK, more than 90% of message-mode's code i devoted to editing of the
headers and to the sending part of the job.  E.g. I'm not sure what
happens if you try to use MIME attachments in your use-case, but
I suspect it won't work right.


        Stefan

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