Re: couple of feature requests, a question

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>]

wrobert2@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu (St. Suika Fenderson Roberts) writes:

> GS> gnus-single-article-buffer's value is t
> 
> Why does this default to true? 

Because I think it's a good idea not to force gratuitous interface
changes upon people.  Having multiple article buffers might annoy some
people.

> >> third, a question: what are the "#'"s for in mail-header.el for?
> >> They break compilation under 19.29, but 19.30 doesn't complain, so
> >> I was wondering.
> 
> GS> from the Info file:
> 
> I know that.  I was just wondering what they are for.  

Isn't "#'" just Common Lispese for "'"?

> Lars posted something about the 'raw s being in there to deal with the
> fact that emacs dumps one into cc mode if the folder name ends in .cc .
> unless some other MTA/MUA needs the folder to end in .cc it seems the
> most reasonable fix is `don't end your folder names in .cc' rather
> than breaking compression support.

Or "comp.lang.c".  I don't think it's inconceivable that people would
want to call a folder something like that -- and they should be able
to.  Which is why those `raw's are needed.

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