Re: Mail should activate from directory currently in use

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From: Kyle Jones
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1990 13:48

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Chris Shenton writes:
 > I'm in a directory and I want to mail something from one of the files
 > there.
 > 
 > So I do ``M-x mail'' (or equivalent from vm) and then ``C-x I''. The
 > minibuffer prompt says ``Insert file: ~/''. No, no, no -- wrong directory!

Laws yes.  How I have grown to hate this behavior as well!  You can
expect it to be patched in VM 5.  It would be good if `mail' itself were
changed so non-VM users could benefit.

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From: kjones@talos.uu.net (Kyle Jones)
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Subject: Re: Mail should activate from directory currently in use
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Date: 15 Feb 90 13:48:59 GMT
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