>>>>> "ZSH" == ShengHuo ZHU
>>>>> "Re: Trouble selecting group in recent cvs"
>>>>>  Fri, 29 Nov 2002 20:01:18 -0500

    ZSH> jam@jamux.com (John A. Martin) writes: [...]

    >> ,----
    >> | (defun gnus-summary-highlight-line-0 ()
    >> |   (if (and (eq gnus-summary-highlight-line-trigger 
    >> |                gnus-summary-highlight)
    >> |            gnus-summary-highlight-line-cached)
    >> |       gnus-summary-highlight-line-cached
    >> |     (setq gnus-summary-highlight-line-trigger gnus-summary-highlight
    >> |           gnus-summary-highlight-line-cached
    >> |           (let* ((cond (list 'cond))
    >> |                  (c cond)
    >> |                  (list gnus-summary-highlight))
    >> |             (while list
    >> |               (setcdr c (cons (list (caar list) (list 'quote (cdar list))) nil))
    >> |               (setq c (cdr c)
    >> |                     list (cdr list)))
    >> |            (gnus-byte-compile (list 'lambda nil cond))))))
    >> `----
    >>
    >> the while is exited with nil.  It is for sure nil over the
    >> first few iterations.  I can't seem to get edebug to run up to
    >> a breakpoint and show the value coming out of the loop.  For
    >> example, SPACE doesn't seem to work here for me.

    ZSH> It is probably related to gnus-byte-compile.  It seems that
    ZSH> gnus-byte-compile doesn't work correctly in some versions of
    ZSH> XEmacs for some unknown reasons.  The work around is to set
    ZSH> gnus-use-byte-compile to nil in .gnus.  Or (defalias
    ZSH> 'gnus-byte-compile 'identity)

Good job!  Thanks much.

In .gnus I had (defun gnus-byte-compile (gnus-compile)).  I don't
remember why, but being a beginner with gnus I must have seen a
suggestion to do that.

Replacing that with (defalias 'gnus-byte-compile 'identity) works fine
as does using neither.  This is now with:

,----[ xemacs21-nomule 21.4.10-2 ]
| XEmacs 21.4 (patch 10) "Military Intelligence" [Lucid]
|   (i386-debian-linux) of Sun Nov 24 2002 on eeyore
`----

        jam