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authorRichard M. Stallman <[email protected]>1993-12-24 03:40:42 +0000
committerRichard M. Stallman <[email protected]>1993-12-24 03:40:42 +0000
commit876cd68935ea894af5045a3cb3d57b2e4f15c765 (patch)
treecdb7f39431d68319295d0ee07dad8994fea93c2d /lisp/mail
parent6c0457176c1a6d74cc8b04e9720265acb843833f (diff)
Comment change.
Diffstat (limited to 'lisp/mail')
-rw-r--r--lisp/mail/rmail.el6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/mail/rmail.el b/lisp/mail/rmail.el
index 2ea8b6b27f..3aa0391eef 100644
--- a/lisp/mail/rmail.el
+++ b/lisp/mail/rmail.el
@@ -532,7 +532,11 @@ Instead, these commands are available:
(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 "--- ")