Re: recent smiley.el changes

[Steve Youngs <youngs@xemacs.org>]

|--==> "WH" == Wes Hardaker <wes@hardakers.net> writes:

  WH> So, recent changes to the gnus cvs directory replaced the smiley.el
  WH> file I originally wrote (and billions of people hacked afterwords)
  WH> with a new one that is a "re-written, simplified version" of the
  WH> original.  All fine and dandy except that the simplification means
  WH> loss of functionality (the ability to toggle the smileys via a menu,
  WH> pop-up help text, etc).

I don't know about other XEmacs users, but I'm only seeing about 20%
of the smilies that I used to with the old (Wes') smiley.el.  And the
ones that I do see are square, gray, and ugly as sin. :-(

  WH> So, are these old features planning on being re-introduced?

I'm hoping that they'll just revert back to the old smiley.el, which
is exactly what I have asked Lars to do.  So far, no response (he must
be too busy).

  WH> (I won't get into why someone thought a rewrite was easier than

Lars seemed to think that there was a bug, which he didn't elaborate
on, because he couldn't see smilies in XEmacs.  I said that I had no
problems and that smiley.el worked great for XEmacs.  Unfortunately,
my comments seem to have been overlooked.

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