Suggested change to rmail

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From: "Barr3y Jaspan"
Date: Thu, 09 May 1991 20:23

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I suggest the following simple change to rmail.  Add

(defvar rmail-completion-dir nil
   "*When rmail is invoked with a prefix argument, it will prompt for
the name of a RMAIL file to run on.  The default path will be the
value of rmail-completion-dir or the default directory of the current
buffer if it is nil.")

and change the interactive call in rmail to

  (interactive (if current-prefix-arg
		   (list (read-file-name "Run rmail on RMAIL file: "
					 rmail-completion-dir nil t))))

The default behavior of rmail will remain unchanged.  Setting the
variable rmail-completion-dir will cause rmail always to prompt the
user with the same directory, which is useful for users (like me) that
keep their mail sorted in several different "rmail" files, all in the
same directory (~/Mail).

Barr3y Jaspan, bjaspan@mit.edu

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