Re: mh-e and buffer read-only status

[Bill Wohler]

ghudson@MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson) writes:
> This is just a suggestion, not a bug report, so no precise version or
> platform information should be needed.  I verified that emacs 21.1 has
> the behavior I'm complaining about.
> 
> A user here noticed that when you use rmail, your mail messages show
> up in a read-only buffer; however, when you use mh-e, the mail
> messages show up in a writable buffer, although any modifications you
> make to the buffer are lost (I think after prompting the user) when
> you show the next message.
> 
> Perhaps mh-show-mode should set the buffer read-only.
> (mh-display-message might need to be modified to temporarily turn off
> read-only mode in order to put in the message content, of course.)

Greg,

  Good idea. I've submitted it as a feature request:

    
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=527946&group_id=13357&atid=363357

  If you wish to follow the progress of this bug, you can visit the
  page above and click on the Monitor button.

  The mh-e home page is mh-e.sourceforge.net.

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