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Jesper Harder <harder@ifa.au.dk> writes:

> Hmm, are you sure?  The doc-string for `gnus-compile' is
>
>      "Byte-compile the user-defined format specs."
>
> and when I look at the function that seems to be exactly what it does.
>
> I think `gnus-update-format-specifications' is the defun responsible for
> converting format strings to Lisp.
>
> But in any case, neither the non-compiled Lisp versions nor the
> byte-compiled versions are saved in my .newsrc.eld.

Whee.  It seems you're right.  Hm.  So where does the bytecode go?
Strange.

kai
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