From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/58329 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Katsumi Yamaoka Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Corrupted score files with ... symbols Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 15:55:05 +0900 Organization: Emacsen advocacy group Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87657agqoz.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <877jrqf6xn.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093330621 32705 80.91.224.253 (24 Aug 2004 06:57:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 06:57:01 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M6870@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Aug 24 08:56:50 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BzVEf-0000Yy-00 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 08:56:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BzVDN-0005b5-00; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 01:55:29 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BzVDJ-0005b0-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 01:55:25 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BzVDG-0007E7-HF for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 01:55:22 -0500 Original-Received: from washington.hostforweb.net (washington.hostforweb.net [69.61.11.2]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 025EC3A0034 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 01:55:21 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by washington.hostforweb.net with asmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1BzVDB-00027p-MB for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 02:55:26 -0400 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: #kKnN,xUnmKia.'[pp`;Omh}odZK)?7wQSl"4o04=EixTF+V[""w~iNbM9ZL+.b*_CxUmFk B#Fu[*?MZZH@IkN:!"\w%I_zt>[$nm7nQosZ<3eu;B:$Q_:p!',P.c0-_Cy[dz4oIpw0ESA^D*1Lw= L&i*6&( User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:dd3L/SN+30T+1LwL6TVS+ag78gk= X-Hashcash: 0:040824:ding@gnus.org:084dd0be10e5aa11 X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - washington.hostforweb.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnus.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - jpl.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58329 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58329 >>>>> In Katsumi Yamaoka wrote: >>>>>> In <877jrqf6xn.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> >>>>>> Florian Weimer wrote: >> * Katsumi Yamaoka: >>> The change seems to affect pp (or pp-to-string). Since pp is >>> being used also in the other Gnus modules, shouldn't we apply >>> the same change to them, either? >> I'm not sure. `gnus-prin1', for example, has been deliberately >> written to cope with non-nil values of `print-length'. Some callers >> might bind `print-circle' in ddition to `print-length' and try to >> print cyclic data structures. > I'm not sure too, but in fact, I saw print-* variables were > sometimes changed from the default values by a mysterious reason > even though I never changed them. I think binding all print-* > variables to the defaults is better for a prevention for an > accident and the overhead does not impose a burden because pp is > not fast. Isn't it a good opportunity to clear an anxiety away? > How about making of gnus-pp and gnus-pp-to-string? ;-) I've done. I didn't bind `print-circle' because non-nil value of it is harmless, and it may be useful since it reduces the size of the .newsrc.eld file, for example.