bug#53638: [PATCH] newsticker better path handling and data storage

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

mailj2@protonmail.com writes:

> The way newsticker currently handles paths involves directly concating
> "/", which only works for UNIX systems.

Can you rework the patch to use `expand-file-name', which is how
file names are supposed to be constructed?

> Additionally, since newsticker uses `prin1-to-string' for storing
> groups and cache, it should be enforced that `print-level' and
> `print-length' are set to nil for the operation just as a precaution (it
> happened to me that I manually set these once, which resulted in the
> newsticker cache being corrupted).

That part of the patch looks good.

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