Richard Zidlicky writes: Ah, that makes sense. All the tools I use that way (version control programs, mostly) initialize the file with some nonempty content. Eg, in the case of mail, I would expect the addressee and subject headers. I guess Mutt has different way of doing that, so the initial buffer is empty. Actually, I think most tools simply use something like tempnam and let the editor create the file, but as that's insecure, I suppose more and more will be using mkstemp, which would have the effect you observe. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta