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rdh> When I edit my .mailrc file, I [empirically] have to kill emacs
rdh> and start a new emacs for any new aliasii added to .mailrc to be
rdh> noticed and used when sending mail. Is this a known bug, or am I
rdh> [not] doing something silly?

On 10 Apr 90 14:58:57 GMT, rdh@sli.com (Robert D. Houk) said:

Robert> I wonder why emacs doesn't do this automagically? Sigh. [You get
Robert> used to it being wonderful in almost every regard...]

You can get it to be done automatically...you just have to use the
right hammer.

I put the following as the last few lines of my ~/.mailrc ...

Note: the line which starts with '# write-file-hooks: has been split
into multiple lines to avoid truncation via e-mail. All of the lines
which do not begin with a '#' should be combined to be on the
write-file-hooks line.

# hack-o-rama
# local variables:
# mode: text
# write-file-hooks: ((lambda () (let ((xyzzy (make-temp-name
"/tmp/foo"))) (condition-case () (progn (message "Rehacking
aliases...") (write-region (point-min) (point-max) xyzzy nil 'foo)
(build-mail-aliases xyzzy) (delete-file xyzzy)) (file-error nil)))
nil))     
# end:

Enjoy!
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