xemacs 21.4 (patch 3) and uncompressing nnml messages

xemacs 21.4 (patch 3) and uncompressing nnml messages

[Randal L. Schwartz]

emacs 20.mumble (gnus version 5.8.8) could handle an article numbered
1234.gz to mean that this article was compressed, and automatically
uncompress it before display.

xemacs 21.4 (patch 3) (gnus version 5.8.8) seems not to do that.  do I
need to set some additional flag somewhere, or am I just going to have
to leave everything uncompressed?  I already added
(auto-compression-mode t) to my .emacs file, like I had with emacs.

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Re: xemacs 21.4 (patch 3) and uncompressing nnml messages

[Vin Shelton]

merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:

> emacs 20.mumble (gnus version 5.8.8) could handle an article numbered
> 1234.gz to mean that this article was compressed, and automatically
> uncompress it before display.
> 
> xemacs 21.4 (patch 3) (gnus version 5.8.8) seems not to do that.  do I
> need to set some additional flag somewhere, or am I just going to have
> to leave everything uncompressed?  I already added
> (auto-compression-mode t) to my .emacs file, like I had with emacs.

The help for auto-compression-mode says:
Toggle automatic file compression and uncompression.
With prefix argument ARG, turn auto compression on if positive, else off.
Returns the new status of auto compression (non-nil means on).

Does changing 't' to '1' a la:

(auto-compression-mode 1)

help?  I have this setting in my init files, and this does what you
want it to.

HTH,
  vin

Re: xemacs 21.4 (patch 3) and uncompressing nnml messages

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "Vin" == Vin Shelton <acs@alumni.princeton.edu> writes:

Vin> The help for auto-compression-mode says:
Vin> Toggle automatic file compression and uncompression.
Vin> With prefix argument ARG, turn auto compression on if positive, else off.
Vin> Returns the new status of auto compression (non-nil means on).

Vin> Does changing 't' to '1' a la:

Vin> (auto-compression-mode 1)

Vin> help?  I have this setting in my init files, and this does what you
Vin> want it to.

That doesn't seem to make a difference to auto-compression-mode.  The
return value from either 1 or t as an argument is "t", and both result
in the message "auto-compression-mode is now ON".

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Re: xemacs 21.4 (patch 3) and uncompressing nnml messages

[Vin Shelton]

merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:
> >>>>> "Vin" == Vin Shelton <acs@alumni.princeton.edu> writes:

> Vin> Does changing 't' to '1' a la:
> 
> Vin> (auto-compression-mode 1)
> 
> Vin> help?  I have this setting in my init files, and this does what you
> Vin> want it to.
> 
> That doesn't seem to make a difference to auto-compression-mode.  The
> return value from either 1 or t as an argument is "t", and both result
> in the message "auto-compression-mode is now ON".

Strangely, though, it works for me.  Have you tried running "xemacs
-vanilla" in order to isolate any effects from your init files?

I'm using nnml under XEmacs 21.4.5, BTW.

  - vin