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Re: Proposed changes to gnus-dup.el
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Proposed changes to gnus-dup.el |
Date: |
Mon, 25 Mar 2019 12:50:45 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> 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.
Stefan
Re: Proposed changes to gnus-dup.el, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/03/25