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Re: Typo in doc string of `gnus-dependencies-add-header'?


From: Eric Abrahamsen
Subject: Re: Typo in doc string of `gnus-dependencies-add-header'?
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2018 13:17:03 -0700
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

"N. Jackson" <nljlistbox2@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Eric,
>
> Thank you for the response.
>
> At 10:00 -0700 on Sunday 2018-07-22, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>>
>> "N. Jackson" <nljlistbox2@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> In Gnus v5.13 in GNU Emacs 27.0.50
>>> Repository revision: f3f67cf0b9a6388d423e048a7aafad2eb531b5a5
>>
>> If you're using Emacs 27, you shouldn't be loading Gnus
>> externally!
>
> Hmm... what makes you think that I am?
>
> As far as I am aware, I am not running an external Gnus. I can't
> see anything in my configuration that would load an external Gnus,
> I don't have any Gnus-related load path shadows, and in Package
> Manager it says I have the "built-in" Gnus.
>
> So I think (probably) that I am okay here.
>
>> FWIW, the docstring of `gnus-summary-ignore-duplicates' now
>> reads:
>>
>> "If non-nil, ignore articles with identical Message-ID headers."
>
> Yes, I see that here too. To be clear, this is about the doc
> string of the function `gnus-dependencies-add-header', not the doc
> string of the variable `gnus-summary-ignore-duplicates'.

Bah, sorry, I guess I forgot that Gnus still has its own version number;
that plus the docstring confusion made me think you were running an old
version of the code.

>> Your bug may still be there, but it will be much more productive to
>> investigate the Gnus code in Emacs' master branch.
>
> I just went and double checked that. (You had me worried for a
> moment!) But I am looking at the sources checked out from Emacs
> master, so no worries there.

Okay, good. And I think you're right that the docstring is backwards.
I'd be happy to change that -- it's a small change, is there anything
else that needs fixing in the meantime? Are you finding any actual bugs?

Eric




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