Re: Oort Gnus v0.17 is released

[Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com>]

Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

> * Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com>  on Tue, 01 Apr 2003
> | It's in gnus-start.el (CVS rev 6.70), it's post 0.17.
>
> I was just making sure that it was not being set explicitly somewhere in
> 0.17 or earlier.  It is not.  The default value in XEmacs is `t'.  This
> confuses me, because I cannot determine why the the newlines are not being
> escaped.
>
> | When I evaluate the following form, I see "a\nb" inserted after the
> | form.  What do you see?  Better yet, what do you need to do to make
> | prin1 echo the string just as it was typed in the form?
>
> | (let ((print-escape-newlines t))
> |   (prin1 "a\nb" (current-buffer))
> |   nil)
>
> From *scratch*, C-j at the end of each form:
>
> ,-----
> | (let ((print-escape-newlines t))
> |   (prin1 "a\nb" (current-buffer))
> |   nil)
> | "a\nb"nil
> | 
> | (let ((print-escape-newlines nil))
> |   (prin1 "a\nb" (current-buffer))
> |   nil)
> | "a
> | b"nil
> `-----
>
> | BTW, I found print-escape-newlines using apropos <RET> print-
> | <RET>. If you do a similar search, you may find other formatting
> | controls that are local to XEmacs.
>

OK, I'll admit that I'm completely confused.  The new code uses prin1
with print-escape-newlines set so the problem must not be literal
newline characters in the strings.  I'm going to download the 0.15 to
see if I can ID the differences before reverting my prior post.

As a fallback, could you post a sample from your .newsrc.eld
highlighting the 0.17 discrepency for me.

Thanks
Kevin