Mercurial > emacs
changeset 37577:8900b620b72c
rmail-save => rmail-expunge-and-save.
Don't state the default for rmail-retry-ignored-headers.
Menu item is `Cancel', not `Don't Send'.
Normal summary line contains date and line count.
Mention rmail-highlight-face.
Clarify about choice of coding system for decoding.
Improve xref for goto-address.
author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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date | Sat, 05 May 2001 22:34:51 +0000 |
parents | 083715958fc6 |
children | 2e1126d1c8b2 |
files | man/rmail.texi |
diffstat | 1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/rmail.texi Sat May 05 22:32:37 2001 +0000 +++ b/man/rmail.texi Sat May 05 22:34:51 2001 +0000 @@ -69,13 +69,13 @@ (@pxref{Rmail Motion}). @kindex s @r{(Rmail)} -@findex rmail-save +@findex rmail-expunge-and-save Following the usual conventions of Emacs, changes in an Rmail file become permanent only when the file is saved. You can save it with -@kbd{s} (@code{rmail-save}), which also expunges deleted messages from -the file first (@pxref{Rmail Deletion}). To save the file without -expunging, use @kbd{C-x C-s}. Rmail also saves the Rmail file after -merging new mail from an inbox file (@pxref{Rmail Inbox}). +@kbd{s} (@code{rmail-expunge-and-save}), which also expunges deleted +messages from the file first (@pxref{Rmail Deletion}). To save the +file without expunging, use @kbd{C-x C-s}. Rmail also saves the Rmail +file after merging new mail from an inbox file (@pxref{Rmail Inbox}). @kindex q @r{(Rmail)} @findex rmail-quit @@ -688,8 +688,7 @@ headers and then send it. The variable @code{rmail-retry-ignored-headers}, in the same format as @code{rmail-ignored-headers} (@pxref{Rmail Display}), controls which -headers are stripped from the failed message when retrying it; it -defaults to @code{nil}. +headers are stripped from the failed message when retrying it. @kindex f @r{(Rmail)} @findex rmail-forward @@ -718,7 +717,7 @@ @dfn{Resending} is an alternative similar to forwarding; the difference is that resending sends a message that is ``from'' the original sender, just as it reached you---with a few added header fields -@samp{Resent-from} and @samp{Resent-to} to indicate that it came via +@samp{Resent-From} and @samp{Resent-To} to indicate that it came via you. To resend a message in Rmail, use @kbd{C-u f}. (@kbd{f} runs @code{rmail-forward}, which is programmed to invoke @code{rmail-resend} if you provide a numeric argument.) @@ -742,7 +741,7 @@ If you set the variable @code{rmail-mail-new-frame} to a non-@code{nil} value, then all the Rmail commands to start sending a message create a new frame to edit it in. This frame is deleted when -you send the message, or when you use the @samp{Don't Send} item in the +you send the message, or when you use the @samp{Cancel} item in the @samp{Mail} menu. All the Rmail commands to send a message use the mail-composition @@ -754,10 +753,11 @@ A @dfn{summary} is a buffer containing one line per message to give you an overview of the mail in an Rmail file. Each line shows the -message number, the sender, the labels, and the subject. Almost all -Rmail commands are valid in the summary buffer also; these apply to the -message described by the current line of the summary. Moving point in -the summary buffer selects messages as you move to their summary lines. +message number and date, the sender, the line count, the labels, and +the subject. Moving point in the summary buffer selects messages as +you move to their summary lines. Almost all Rmail commands are valid +in the summary buffer also; when used there, they apply to the message +described by the current line of the summary. A summary buffer applies to a single Rmail file only; if you are editing multiple Rmail files, each one can have its own summary buffer. @@ -995,20 +995,18 @@ specifies the header fields to highlight; if it matches the beginning of a header field, that whole field is highlighted. - If you specify unusual colors for your text foreground and background, -the colors used for highlighting may not go well with them. If so, -specify different colors for the @code{highlight} face. That is worth -doing because the @code{highlight} face is used for other kinds of -highlighting as well. @xref{Faces}, for how to do this. - - To turn off highlighting entirely in Rmail, set + If you specify unusual colors for your text foreground and +background, the colors used for highlighting may not go well with +them. If so, specify different colors for the face +@code{rmail-highlight-face}. @xref{Faces}, for how to do this. To +turn off highlighting entirely in Rmail, set @code{rmail-highlighted-headers} to @code{nil}. You can highlight and activate URLs in incoming messages by adding the function @code{goto-address} to the hook @code{rmail-show-message-hook}. Then you can browse these URLs by clicking on them with @kbd{Mouse-2} or by moving to one and typing -@kbd{C-c @key{RET}}. @xref{Goto-address}. +@kbd{C-c @key{RET}}. @xref{Goto-address, Activating URLs, Activating URLs}. @node Rmail Coding @section Rmail and Coding Systems @@ -1017,8 +1015,8 @@ Rmail automatically decodes messages which contain non-@sc{ascii} characters, just as it does with files you visit and with and subprocess output. Rmail uses the standard -@samp{charset=@var{charset}} header in the message to determine how -the was message encoded by the sender. It maps @var{charset} into the +@samp{charset=@var{charset}} header in the message, if any, to determine how +the message was encoded by the sender. It maps @var{charset} into the corresponding Emacs coding system (@pxref{Coding Systems}), and uses that coding system to decode message text. If the message header doesn't have the charset specification, or if the @var{charset} it