Re: message.el patch

[Geoff Greene]

i just realized that it would have been better (i think) to put the check
for buffer-file-name in the message-mode function itself rather than the
message-set-auto-save-name function.  here's a revised patch.

On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Geoff Greene wrote:

> i just wrote a quick patch for lisp/gnus/message.el to fix an issue i have
> with it.  it resets the filename of the buffer to *message* in your drafts
> directory, even if the buffer already has an associate file.
>
> this patch fixes it so that the filename will only be reset if the buffer
> is not already associated with a file.  this way you can edit an email on
> disk, rather than sending it, posting it to usenet, or whatever.  this is
> good for people who use newsreaders like tin that start up $EDITOR to
> compose messages, and want to write them using message-mode.
>
> i'm only just teaching myself elisp, so i might not have done it the best
> way, but it seems to work for me.
>