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Article #87874rmail error; bad message
From: Rusty Wright
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 1994 18:03
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 1994 18:03
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In GNU Emacs 19.25.1 of Tue Jun 14 1994 on groan.Berkeley.EDU (decstation) Somehow rmail got into some strange state; there was a file in my directory named #tmp#0 that was about the same size as my RMAIL file. When I tried to save my rmail buffer emacs came back with File RMAIL changed on disk. Read the new version? (yes or no) This message is NOT GOOD. I'm not saying it's bad, but when you're in a situation where you may lose some work, the message needs to be absolutely clear about what's going to happen. When this happened, I went into a mild panic and I couldn't tell if this meant it was going to read the file from disk and throw away my RMAIL buffer, or throw away the disk file and use the RMAIL buffer. The "Read the new version?" is in no way explicitly clear about exactly what's going to happen when I type yes. I'm sure it's clear to the programmer, but not to us bonehead users. Please rephrase this message so that people won't inadvertently lose work. Thanks.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb2f1,bdf23f5f2edf5954,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfb2f1,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-08-22 11:51:56 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!redstone.interpath.net!ddsw1!news.kei.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!groan.berkeley.edu!rusty From: rusty@groan.berkeley.edu (Rusty Wright) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Subject: rmail error; bad message Date: 22 Aug 1994 14:03:42 -0400 Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 18 Sender: daemon@cis.ohio-state.edu Approved: bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu Distribution: gnu Message-ID: <9408221800.AA03120@groan.Berkeley.EDU>