Re: How to change definition of gnus-summary-exit?

[Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>]

On Oct 15 2015, Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> wrote:
> asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:
>
>>> What is happening here?  Why does the help refer me to the modified
>>> version, but the version in memory is actually the original one?  And
>>> how do I tell emacs/gnus to use my version?
>
> Why do you copy the complete gnus-sum.el when you just want to
> change one function?  As a result, you won't see any future changes of
> gnus-sum.el (bugfixes and new features).

Not quite, the 'modified version' is actually a clone of the gnus git
repo.

> What do you want to change exactly?  Oftentimes, a simple advice will do
> without having to override the complete function.

What's an advice (in this context)? I am interested in fixing/working
around https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=21071.

>> I'm sure somebody with more hardcore knowledge than me will jump in;
>> just a guess: could it be a byte compiled file (.elc) that is being
>> picked up?
>
> Indeed, if Nikolaus copied both gnus-sum.el and gnus-sum.elc into his
> other directory, then modified gnus-sum.el but didn't recompile it, and
> additionally `load-prefer-newer' is nil, that would explain the issue.

Thanks, that was it! I was assuming that Emacs would automatically
ignore the .elc file if the .el file was newer.

Best,
-Nikolaus

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