diff lisp/mail/rmail.el @ 5330:bd122ee8c338

Comment change.
author Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
date Fri, 24 Dec 1993 03:40:42 +0000
parents 2c747b081be1
children a35739cc2026
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--- a/lisp/mail/rmail.el	Fri Dec 24 03:34:11 1993 +0000
+++ b/lisp/mail/rmail.el	Fri Dec 24 03:40:42 1993 +0000
@@ -532,7 +532,11 @@
   (setq major-mode 'rmail-mode)
   (setq mode-name "RMAIL")
   (setq buffer-read-only t)
-  ;; No need to auto save RMAIL files.
+  ;; No need to auto save RMAIL files in normal circumstances
+  ;; because they contain no info except attribute changes
+  ;; and deletion of messages.
+  ;; The one exception is when messages are copied into an Rmail mode buffer.
+  ;; rmail-output-to-rmail-file enables auto save when you do that.
   (setq buffer-auto-save-file-name nil)
   (if (boundp 'mode-line-modified)
       (setq mode-line-modified "--- ")