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vm-delete-message ignores vm-circular-folders

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From: David J. Mackenzie
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1993 21:23
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vm.texinfo 5.35 sez about vm-circular-folders:

      A value
    other than @code{nil} or @code{t} causes only VM's movement
    commands to consider folders circular.  Saves, deletes and undeletes
    will behave as if the value is @code{nil}.  The default value of
    @code{vm-circular-folders} is @code{0}.

But a friend (cross@eng.umd.edu) reports:

Chris>   Hi.  I can't make vm-circular-folders work as advertised in
Chris> the Users Guide.  It says that if it's non-nil and non-t (ie,
Chris> 0, the default, which I'm also hard setting it to) that
Chris> movement will regard folders as circular, but deletes, among
Chris> other things, wont.  But, if I delete the last message in my
Chris> folder, it will go to the first one.  This seems bogus.

Another friend (sukes@eng.umd.edu) says:

Sukes> It's a bug in the documentation.
Sukes> I looked at the source for 5.31 and 5.33.
Sukes> In neither one, vm-delete-message make provision for
Sukes> vm-circular-folders.

Chris says it hasn't changed in 5.35.
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