Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

Hi Katsumi,

> Thank you for contributing a good feature.  I tried it today and
> realized it is really useful.

Thanks for the compliments!

> Though I have no plan for the moment, people might want a browser
> function for many sticky articles. :)

Currently I use `ibuffer' and `s m' which sorts buffers by mode.  But it
might be useful to switch between sticky article buffers with something
like `switch-to-buffer' which tab-completes only sticky articles.  Or do
you have another suggestion?

Anyway, I applied your patch and tested it.

> Please let me write about a few problems in `gnus-sticky-article'.
>
> 1. (gnus-configure-windows 'article) makes an empty article
>    buffer and leads creating of an empty sticky article if there
>    is no article buffer initially, but is not necessary because
>    `gnus-summary-select-article' runs it by way of
>    `gnus-summary-display-article' and `gnus-article-prepare'
>    after preparing an article.

Seems to work now.

> 2. It seems to be useless that this command always makes a new
>    sticky article buffer.  I mean, performing of the `A S'
>    command repeatedly on an article creates "*Sticky Article*",
>    "*Sticky Article*<2>", "*Sticky Article*<3>"...

Yes, that's indeed useless.  With your patch it's fixed.

> 3. The value of the `gnus-article-buffer' variable in the summary
>    buffer is not updated when I select another (normal) article.
>    Because of this, a non-ASCII article or a QP-encoded article
>    is not decoded when I type `P' or `N' in the summary buffer.

Seems to be fixed, too.

> 4. I wish you to leave the value of the `indent-tabs-mode'
>    variable the default if there is no good reason.  Now some
>    lines are indented with tabs but others aren't.

Oh, sorry.  I've put file local variables into the files I modified, but
maybe I inserted the spaces before I did that.

Is there a mechanism to set variables based on the directory a file
resides?  If not I'll do something home-brewed and hook it into
find-file-hook.

> I tried improving these problems.

Thanks.  As far as I can see all problems are fixed.  Here's a patch
that incorporates all your changes plus a changelog entry.