Ar an seachtú lá is fiche de mí Feabhra, scríobh Hrvoje Nikšić: Yeah. I paid too much attention to the spirit of the rest of the file, which happily uses the message, mh-e and gnus user agents without checking if they were installed. Someone’s sync with the FSF was too faithful. On further examination, is that even possible? The defcustom :initialize argument seems to be related, but when I try to use it I get a core dump on startup. (defcustom mail-user-agent 'vm-user-agent "*Your preference for a mail composition package. ..." [...] :initialize '(lambda (sym val) (unless (default-boundp symbol) (if (locate-library "vm") (setq sym 'vm-user-agent) (setq sym 'sendmail-user-agent)))) -- “I, for instance, am gung-ho about open source because my family is being held hostage in Rob Malda’s basement. But who fact-checks me, or Enderle, when we say something in public? No-one!” -- Danny O’Brien

Ar an seachtú lá is fiche de mí Feabhra, scríobh Hrvoje Nikšić: ’zactly. If it’s in the menu, there’s an assumption that it’s there by default. Tried that; it only got evaluated once, at dump time. Here’s something that works, but it’s horrible: lisp/ChangeLog addition: 2005-02-27 Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net&gt; * menubar-items.el (default-menubar): Add an entry for VM in the list of mail composition agents. * simple.el: * simple.el (mail-user-agent): Change the default mail user agent to VM; update the docstring to give details of VM and cross-reference to the Info docs. Add a startup hook to revert to sendmail-user-agent if VM isn't available. * simple.el ('vm-user-agent): New. Define the vm-user-agent as a mail user agent. man/ChangeLog addition: 2005-02-27 Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net&gt; * xemacs/sending.texi (Sending Mail): Note that the default user agent is now VM, that it's compatible with sendmail.el, and cross-reference to its documentation. XEmacs Trunk source patch: Diff command: cvs -q diff -u Files affected: man/xemacs/sending.texi lisp/simple.el lisp/menubar-items.el Index: lisp/menubar-items.el =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/xemacs/lisp/menubar-items.el,v retrieving revision 1.46 diff -u -u -r1.46 menubar-items.el --- lisp/menubar-items.el 2005/02/03 05:03:38 1.46 +++ lisp/menubar-items.el 2005/02/27 22:36:57 ＠＠ -886,7 +886,11 ＠＠ :active (boundp 'ps-print-color-p)]) ("%_Internet" ("%_Compose Mail With" - ["Default Emacs Mailer" + ["VM mail package" + (customize-set-variable 'mail-user-agent 'vm-user-agent) + :style radio + :selected (eq mail-user-agent 'vm-user-agent)] + ["Bare-bones Emacs Mailer" (customize-set-variable 'mail-user-agent 'sendmail-user-agent) :style radio :selected (eq mail-user-agent 'sendmail-user-agent)] Index: lisp/simple.el =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/xemacs/lisp/simple.el,v retrieving revision 1.50 diff -u -u -r1.50 simple.el --- lisp/simple.el 2005/02/23 22:25:16 1.50 +++ lisp/simple.el 2005/02/27 22:37:01 ＠＠ -3306,16 +3306,20 ＠＠ ;; BEGIN SYNCHED WITH FSF 21.2. -(defcustom mail-user-agent 'sendmail-user-agent +(defcustom mail-user-agent 'vm-user-agent "*Your preference for a mail composition package. Various Emacs Lisp packages (e.g. Reporter) require you to compose an outgoing email message. This variable lets you specify which mail-sending package you prefer. -Valid values include: - - `sendmail-user-agent' -- use the default Emacs Mail package. - See Info node `(emacs)Sending Mail'. +Valid values may include: + + `vm-user-agent' -- use Kyle Jones' VM, as documented in the `(vm)' + Info node. Compatible with `sendmail-user-agent', + and can handle attachments and non-ASCII content, + which the former can't. + `sendmail-user-agent' -- use the former default, bare-bones, Emacs Mail + package. See Info node `(xemacs)Sending Mail'. `mh-e-user-agent' -- use the Emacs interface to the MH mail system. See Info node `(mh-e)'. `message-user-agent' -- use the Gnus Message package. ＠＠ -3329,7 +3333,10 ＠＠ succeeds. See also `read-mail-command' concerning reading mail." -:type '(radio (function-item :tag "Default Emacs mail" +:type '(radio (function-item :tag "VM mail package" + :format "%t\n" + vm-user-agent) + (function-item :tag "Bare-bones Emacs mail" :format "%t\n" sendmail-user-agent) (function-item :tag "Emacs interface to MH" ＠＠ -3344,6 +3351,10 ＠＠ (function :tag "Other")) :group 'mail) +(add-hook 'emacs-startup-hook + '(lambda () (unless (locate-library "vm") + (setq mail-user-agent 'sendmail-user-agent)))) + (defun define-mail-user-agent (symbol composefunc sendfunc &optional abortfunc hookvar) "Define a symbol to identify a mail-sending package for `mail-user-agent'. ＠＠ -3385,6 +3396,12 ＠＠ (define-mail-user-agent 'message-user-agent 'message-mail 'message-send-and-exit 'message-kill-buffer 'message-send-hook) + +(define-mail-user-agent 'vm-user-agent + (function vm-compose-mail) ; compose function + (function vm-mail-send-and-exit) ; send function + nil ; abort function (kill-buffer) + nil) ; hook variable (mail-send-hook) (defun rfc822-goto-eoh () ;; Go to header delimiter line in a mail message, following RFC822 rules Index: man/xemacs/sending.texi =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/xemacs/man/xemacs/sending.texi,v retrieving revision 1.4 diff -u -u -r1.4 sending.texi --- man/xemacs/sending.texi 2001/04/12 18:22:30 1.4 +++ man/xemacs/sending.texi 2005/02/27 22:37:01 ＠＠ -40,6 +40,16 ＠＠ ＠kbd{C-u C-x m} is another way to switch back to a message in progress: it will search for an existing, unsent mail message buffer and select it. +Starting with version 21.5, the default mail composition package in +XEmacs is VM, which is compatible with `sendmail.el' (the old default, +as described in this document) and has thorough support for attachments +and non-ASCII messages. ＠xref{(vm)}, for the full VM documentation, +should you want information on these features. XEmacs' package system +can mean that VM isn't installed---in that case, `sendmail.el' will +be the fallback. If your mail buffer is called ``*mail*'', then +you probably don't have VM installed; ＠pxref{Packages} for information +on how to install the package. + ＠menu * Format: Mail Format. Format of the mail being composed. * Headers: Mail Headers. Details of allowed mail header fields. -- “I, for instance, am gung-ho about open source because my family is being held hostage in Rob Malda’s basement. But who fact-checks me, or Enderle, when we say something in public? No-one!” -- Danny O’Brien