[17397] in Athena Bugs
sun4 8.3.23: emacs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laura Baldwin)
Wed Dec 1 11:53:50 1999
Message-Id: <199912011653.LAA04008@geskekelud.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 11:53:42 -0500
From: Laura Baldwin <boojum@MIT.EDU>
System name: geskekelud.mit.edu
Type and version: SPARC/5 8.3.23 (with mkserv)
Display type: cgsix
Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager: twm
What were you trying to do?
use mh-rmail to get a folder list and then continue
What's wrong:
I do M-x mh-list-folders. It gives me a list of folders in
" *mh-temp*". Yay. I go back to +inbox and do M-f and
select any other as-yet-unvisted folder. It scans the folder
into a buffer as expected, then beeps and displays the message
Buffer is read-only: #<buffer *mh-temp*>
If I kill the temp buffer, the error stops beeping.
(When I've loaded my own .emacs, it also won't let me do
anything in this new buffer; with emacs -q it doesn't have
this problem, so it's not as much of a bug as I thought when I
started reporting it. but there's clearly *some* sort of
error happening)
What should have happened:
Maybe the folder list should be named something other than
" *mh-temp*" if this is this is being used by other mail
processes?
