Variable: dired-bind-vm

dired-bind-vm is a customizable variable defined in dired-x.el.gz.

Value

nil

Documentation

Non-nil means "V" runs dired-vm, otherwise "V" runs dired-rmail.

RMAIL files in the old Babyl format (used before Emacs 23.1) contain "-*- rmail -*-" at the top, so dired-find-file will run rmail on these files. New RMAIL files use the standard mbox format, and so cannot be distinguished in this way.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/dired-x.el.gz
(defcustom dired-bind-vm nil
  "Non-nil means \"V\" runs `dired-vm', otherwise \"V\" runs `dired-rmail'.
RMAIL files in the old Babyl format (used before Emacs 23.1)
contain \"-*- rmail -*-\" at the top, so `dired-find-file'
will run `rmail' on these files.  New RMAIL files use the standard
mbox format, and so cannot be distinguished in this way."
  :type 'boolean
  :group 'dired-x)