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Re: Menu problems with RobF's version of VM

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From: newsspam5REMOVETHIS
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 22:40
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Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.uu.nl> writes:

> I am using the VM version as patched by Robert Widhopf-Fenk on FSF Emacs
> (22.0.92) and I am having a couple of problems with menus.
>
> First on an incoming message with a Mime attachment Mouse button 3 gives
> the wrong menu (Fiddle with attachment instead of Take Action on MIME
> body). I found the cause for this in vm-mime.el (vm-mime-insert-button):
>
>       (put-text-property (overlay-start e) 
> 			 (overlay-end e) 
> 			 'vm-mime-object t)

Thanks for debugging this!

> In vm-menu.el (vm-menu-popup-context-menu) the vm-mime-object text-property
> is used to decide to display the 'Fiddle..' menu. In the original VM this
> property is only used for outgoing Mime attachments.

This problem should be fixed in vm-7.19-devo-279

> The second problem is that sometimes the main menu entries while reading a
> mailbox are doubled. For example, the 'Folder' menu will contain two menu
> items, each named 'Folder' and each having the original Folder menu as a
> submenu. This problem can come and go away in the same Emacs session. I
> don't know what causes it, but I have sometimes noticed that it occurred
> when I switched manually to a VM Presentation buffer, and disappeared when
> I switched using the vm command.

Did you also see it before in GNU Emacs version 21.4 resp. in
standard VM? I am not aware of any changes of mine which might
affect this and I was not able to reproduce this.

How do you switch to the presentation buffer, i.e. which command
do you use?

Robert.
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Subject: Re: Menu problems with RobF's version of VM
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