Anyone using topics in v0.16?

[jvinson@cheux.ecs.umass.edu (Jack Vinson)]

Topics have completely flaked out on me with the introduction of
hierarchies and the gnus-topic-line-format.  At first, I thought the
problem was that I had defined the "topic" group parameter in a handful of
groups, but nothing changed when I removed them.  

Then I tried going with the default value of gnus-group-topics, which
corrected one problem but found another problem with the fontification of
the topic-line.  (In particular, I got an error in the add-text-properties
call in gnus-topic-insert-topic-line.)

I notice that the topic-mode is not being loaded when I have set
gnus-group-prepare-function to 'gnus-group-prepare-topics.

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Jack Vinson                                                  Sunderland, MA
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