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Article #6Re: rmail trouble
From: Ethan Bradford
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1992 21:29
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1992 21:29
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In article <schwager.697740690@mike.cs.uiuc.edu> schwager@cs.uiuc.edu (Mike Schwager) writes:
ARGH,
Big trouble with Emacs here. This fails under 18.55 and 18.57:
When I do
Meta-X rmail
I get:
Symbol's value as variable is void: buffer-undo-list
I cannot figure out why this is happening at all. It appears that rmail
does some work, at least, because it shows me my last mail message.
-Mike
I had this same problem using RMAIL from the EMACS 18.57 distribution
with EPOCH, which was based on 18.55 (I haven't yet fetched the latest
version of EPOCH, which is based on 18.57). My theory is that the
offending variable was added between those EMACS versions, but the
base code in EPOCH doesn't create it.
Everything works if you just give the program exactly what it is
asking for: I added the following line to default.el and all is well.
;;; New EMACS variable -- required by RMAIL.
(defvar buffer-undo-list nil)
--
-- Ethan (ethanb@u.washington.edu)
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