slj@mtung.ATT.COM (S. Luke Jones) (09/16/89)
Back in June I nabbed a copy of VM (4.11) off the net. Today I
tried to install it. What I saw looks terrific. But...
Has there been a new release since then? Because I ran across
several bugs in just a short time playing with it. E.g.,
=> typing 'h' for a summary of headers appears to screw up
something internally because most commands don't work
after that.
=> doing (something) resulted in an emacs-error about the
variable 'defautl-directory': a spelling error in a
variable name.
The VM mode looks really neat (like RMAIL did before I learned
what I didn't like about it) but I can't risk losing my mail
with something so unstable. If anybody has accumulated a list
of changes since 4.11 I'd appreciate seeing them.
(Please don't tell me about 'ftp'-ing them from somewhere
unless you're willing to tutor a complete moron in that whole
ftp-thing.)
Thanks in advance,
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S. Luke Jones writes about VM 4.11: > Has there been a new release since then? Because I ran across > several bugs in just a short time playing with it. E.g., > => typing 'h' for a summary of headers appears to screw up > something internally because most commands don't work > after that. It sounds like you're using a pre-18.51 version of GNU Emacs. The failure of `h' (vm-summarize) is the most visible indication of trouble, but there are other more subtle problems. > => doing (something) resulted in an emacs-error about the > variable 'defautl-directory': a spelling error in a > variable name. This sounds more like VM 4.10 than 4.11. "(something)" was probably `s' (vm-save-message). The typo was missed because it only causes trouble if vm-folder-directory is nil, and I can't think of anyone who doesn't use a folder directory. In any case the latest version of VM is 4.41.