Mercurial > emacs
changeset 102147:4112729ac2e4
Minor updates for mbox rather than Babyl.
| author | Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> |
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| date | Fri, 20 Feb 2009 06:18:51 +0000 |
| parents | 7676bb272202 |
| children | b8dfb0b7d10f |
| files | doc/emacs/ChangeLog doc/emacs/rmail.texi |
| diffstat | 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog Fri Feb 20 06:09:38 2009 +0000 +++ b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog Fri Feb 20 06:18:51 2009 +0000 @@ -1,7 +1,10 @@ +2009-02-20 Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> + + * rmail.texi: Minor updates for mbox rather than Babyl. + 2009-02-17 Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org> - * emacs.texi (Top): Add @insertcopying before the master menu. - (Bug#1988) + * emacs.texi (Top): Add @insertcopying before master menu. (Bug#1988) 2009-02-17 Richard M Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
--- a/doc/emacs/rmail.texi Fri Feb 20 06:09:38 2009 +0000 +++ b/doc/emacs/rmail.texi Fri Feb 20 06:18:51 2009 +0000 @@ -11,10 +11,9 @@ @vindex rmail-mode-hook Rmail is an Emacs subsystem for reading and disposing of mail that -you receive. Rmail stores mail messages in files called Rmail files -which use a special format. Reading the message in an Rmail file is -done in a special major mode, Rmail mode, which redefines most letters -to run commands for managing mail. +you receive. Rmail stores mail messages in files called Rmail files. +Reading the message in an Rmail file is done in a special major mode, +Rmail mode, which redefines most letters to run commands for managing mail. @menu * Basic: Rmail Basics. Basic concepts of Rmail, and simple use. * Scroll: Rmail Scrolling. Scrolling through a message. @@ -342,11 +341,11 @@ the rest of Rmail, since only Rmail operates on the Rmail file. @end enumerate - Rmail was written to use Babyl format as its internal format. Since -then, we have recognized that the usual inbox format on Unix and GNU -systems is adequate for the job, and we plan to change Rmail to use that -as its internal format. However, the Rmail file will still be separate -from the inbox file, even when their format is the same. + Rmail was originally written to use Babyl as its internal format. +Since then, we have recognized that the usual inbox format on Unix and +GNU systems is adequate for the job, and so since Emacs 23 Rmail uses +that as its internal format. The Rmail file is still separate from the +inbox file, even though their format is the same. @vindex rmail-preserve-inbox When getting new mail, Rmail first copies the new mail from the