Emacs 25 & the registry

Emacs 25 & the registry

[Norman Walsh]

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Hello folks,

I decided to give Emacs 25.1.3 a try. Curiously, when I start gnus
(v5.13), it pauses part way through and asks me to confirm that I want
to rename ~/.gnus.registry.eioio to ~/.gnus.registry.eioio

Past that prompt, it seems to come up fine. Any thoughts? It doesn’t
do that under Emacs 24.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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. 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.

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Re: Emacs 25 & the registry

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes:

> Hello folks,
>
> I decided to give Emacs 25.1.3 a try. Curiously, when I start gnus
> (v5.13), it pauses part way through and asks me to confirm that I want
> to rename ~/.gnus.registry.eioio to ~/.gnus.registry.eioio

Surely it asks to rename to ~/.gnus.registry.eieio?

> Past that prompt, it seems to come up fine. Any thoughts? It doesn’t
> do that under Emacs 24.

That was sort of a bikeshed fix that was made along with some other
tweaks to the registry, which made it into the version of Gnus which now
ships as a part of Emacs (which is why you're only seeing it now). The
typo wasn't doing anyone any harm, but my day job has to do with
editing, and I find that stuff hard to let go... :)

Eric

Re: Emacs 25 & the registry

[Norman Walsh]

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Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>> I decided to give Emacs 25.1.3 a try. Curiously, when I start gnus
>> (v5.13), it pauses part way through and asks me to confirm that I want
>> to rename ~/.gnus.registry.eioio to ~/.gnus.registry.eioio
>
> Surely it asks to rename to ~/.gnus.registry.eieio?

Yes, sorry. Typo on my part.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

-- 
Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | Nothing can exceed the vanity of our
http://nwalsh.com/            | existence but the folly of our
                              | pursuits.--Oliver Goldsmith

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Re: Emacs 25 & the registry

[Norman Walsh]

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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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