Re: Proposed changes to gnus-dup.el

[Basil L. Contovounesios]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>>> While looking into bug#34973, bug#34974, and bug#34987, I accumulated
>>> the attached changes to lisp/gnus/gnus-dup.el which I would like to push
>>> to master.  WDYT?
>>
>> Given the games Gnus plays with bindings (see `defvoo' and `deffoo') the
>> switch to lexical binding for gnus may prove to be complex.
>>
>> It would be better to avoid switching to lexical binding for a single
>> file in gnus: rather, do that as part of a larger effort to switch all
>> of gnus over to lexical binding.
>
> FWIW, I've been compiling Gnus using lexical-binding for many years now,
> and it's the MUA I use to spam this mailing-list, so at least the main
> "read&write messages" works fine for the nnimap and nntp backends.
>
> I think the def[fv]oo hacks don't get in the way of
> lexical-binding at all.

Thank you for sharing your experience; it's reassuring.

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Basil