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Re: gnus-summary-catchup turns ticked into unread
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Katsumi Yamaoka |
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Re: gnus-summary-catchup turns ticked into unread |
Date: |
Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:22:06 +0900 |
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Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
>>>>> Richard Stallman wrote:
> I worry that changing the arguments list of such a generic function
> in Emacs causes further confusion.
> I think that compatibility in the long term will do more good
> than the short-term confusion.
> We might, if anything, give up using that argument, since it doesn't
> seem to be very important in the codes in question actually.
> That means that Gnus can easily avoid being affected the confusion.
> Right?
Indeed. I agreed with you, and made changes in Gnus so as not
to use the NORECORD argument in `pop-to-buffer's. (The changes
will be merged into Emacs soon.)
> So I conclude it is ok to change this.
> It also
> might suggest that such arguments that are not indispensable and are
> incompatible with versions of Emacsen will be doomed to be not used.
> I think that an arg which is compatible between future Emacs versions
> and XEmacs could be used easily enough, when there is a need to use it.
You're right. It's much better than we do nothing.
> So I tend to think we should go ahead with this change,
> unless there is some other reason not to.