Re: Gnus using lexical-binding

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> I'm now seeing a bug with `gnus-article-browse-html-article' that might
>> (?) be a result of this, I'm not sure.
>
> It's triggered by the recent change, indeed.
> It's due to a longer standing bug, tho.

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> I'm not completely sure why this code looks up the `standard-value`, but
> the `standard-value` property is supposed to contain a cons cell whose
> car is an *expression* that needs to be evaluated to get the variable's
> intended standard value.

Ah, hence the lambda. I can't immediately think of why we'd need the
standard value of the option here, either.

> So it will never be nil and using it as a value is just wrong.
>
> I installed a patch into `master` which should hopefully fix
> the problem.

Looks good! Thanks for the quick fix.

Eric