Just closing the loop…

Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes:
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
[…]
>> Surely it asks to rename to ~/.gnus.registry.eieio?
>
> Yes, sorry. Typo on my part.

And, now that I understand what it was renaming, I can confirm it only
asked once. Not sure how I confused myself about that. Possibly
because the incorrectly named file (the names were so close I thought
they were the same, which was what really confused me) was recreated
each time I started emacs 24.

And with respect to my other notes:

> P.S. Random observations. I built Emacs 25 myself on Linux with all
> the bells and whistles. Screen resizing during startup seems to
> confuse it, parts of the frame don’t get repainted until I switch
> windows.

This was related to building --with-cairo, a risk clearly spelled out
in the docs that I somehow managed to read right past.

> In Gnus message mode, typing “)” when there isn’t a matching
> quote prints the “No matching parenthesis found” message in the
> minibuffer then hangs, driving the CPU to 100%. So there are other
> things wrong.

That’s not reproducible in 25.1.90, I’m pleased to report.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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