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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: Why can't `gnus-draft-setup' be bytecompiled?
Date: 19 Mar 1998 13:25:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m37m5qj2a8.fsf@sparky.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Hallvard B Furuseth's message of "14 Mar 1998 03:29:42 +0100"

Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> writes:

> It *is* bytecompiled in emacs19.

So it is.  Huh.  Even weirder.

> Looking at this, I noticed a bug in gnus-setup-message:
> 
> (defmacro gnus-setup-message (config &rest forms)
>   ...
>     `(let (...)
> 	 ...
> 	 (set (make-local-variable 'gnus-message-group-art)
> 	      (cons ,gnus-newsgroup-name ,article))
>                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> This expands to the value which gnus-newsgroup-name has *at compile
> time*.  That's normally nil, unless you byte-compile inside emacs.

Hm, yes...  Ah; I see.  It's only used in nnvirtual groups...

> Normally you should only use `,' in front of the macro arguments (or
> values computed from the macro arguments).  There are several other
> occurrences of ",gnus-*" in gnus-msg.el.  And other places, as seen with
> 	egrep ',@* *(gnus|nn[a-z0-9]*)-' *.el

They are mostly used when creating functions on-the-fly.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen


      reply	other threads:[~1998-03-19 12:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-03-09 23:01 SL Baur
1998-03-09 23:19 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-03-13 21:39   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-03-14  3:11   ` Hallvard B Furuseth
1998-03-14  3:23     ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-03-14  4:09       ` Aaron M. Ucko
1998-03-19 12:30         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-03-21  2:09           ` Aaron M. Ucko
1998-03-23 13:15             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-03-14  2:29 ` Hallvard B Furuseth
1998-03-19 12:25   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]

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