Re: Latest XEmacs lossage in sgnus 0.15

[steve@miranova.com (Steven L. Baur)]

> c) you can not browse a group of the killed list.

I verified that.  Probably related is the new bug (from 0.1[345])
where nnvirtual groups cannot be created.

Adding to your list:  (In no particular order)
The dribble file never gets autosaved (new with 0.13).  The loser with
this one is the erroneous (for XEmacs) (setq buffer-file-name ...)
replacing the valid (set-visited-file-name ...) in
gnus-dribble-read-file.

nnheader-insert-head (used by all the local file routines) exercises
an XEmacs GC bug.  I have a patch for this, but it breaks ange-ftp
stuffs.

Entry to topics mode fails, at least with a gnus-group-topics string
that used to work with 0.14.  Of course, since the text-properties get
screwed up by an XEmacs bug, gnus-topics has never completely worked.

Nnvirtual groups have failed to behave in any reasonable fashion since
0.12.  (Probably some wierd XEmacs problem since they work for Lars).

Pseudo-article/dummy article default format strings do not contain the
necessary magic to have mouse highlight enabled.

> Any help or suggestions where to start debugging?

The easiest would be problems introduced since 5.0.12.  The lack of
highlighting you described in b) might be the most rewarding.  I smell
an XEmacs bug there (I've noticed analogous behavior from time to
time in other places), but cannot as yet prove it.

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steve@miranova.com baur