Re: Gnus v5.4.62 is released

[Steven L Baur <steve@xemacs.org>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

> Fri Jul  4 13:00:39 1997  enami tsugutomo  <enami@but-b.or.jp>

> 	* gnus-group.el (gnus-group-set-mode-line): Use new, shorter
> 	format. 

> diff -u -r1.17 -r1.18
> --- gnus-group.el       1997/06/29 23:12:30     1.17
> +++ gnus-group.el       1997/07/07 00:52:41     1.18
> @@ -1213,8 +1213,7 @@
>                      (not (zerop (buffer-size))))))
>             (mode-string (eval gformat)))
>        ;; Say whether the dribble buffer has been modified.
> -       (setq mode-line-modified
> -             (if modified "--**- " "----- "))
> +       (setq mode-line-modified (if modified "**" "--"))
>         ;; If the line is too long, we chop it off.
>        (when (> (length mode-string) max-len)
>          (setq mode-string (substring mode-string 0 (- max-len 4))))

Count me as one vote against the new format.  Gnus wastes too much
valuable modeline space, it is true.  But correcting it this way
doesn't seem to me to be the Right Thing To Do.

Actually, I thought it was an XEmacs bug when I first saw it.
-- 
steve@calag.com baur
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