XEmacs-20/Emacs20 w/o MULE in qgnus-0.17

XEmacs-20/Emacs20 w/o MULE in qgnus-0.17

[Danny Siu]

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When I try to start qgnus-0.17 with XEmacs-20.2/3 compiled *without* MULE and
it complains that enable-multibyte-characters is not defined.

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Signaling: (void-variable enable-multibyte-characters)
  gnus-read-descriptions-file((nntp "enquirer"))
  gnus-read-all-descriptions-files()
  gnus-setup-news(nil nil nil)
  byte-code("\b¬ˆ	¬… ˆªÂÃÄ!ˆÅ\x0e\x06!\x16\a\x0e\b¬„\x0e	«ƒÊ ˆ\x0e\v«ˆÌ ˆÍÎÏ\"ˆÐÑ\x0e\x12\b#ˆÃÓ!ˆÔ ˆÕ\x0e\x12!ˆÖ ˆ×Ø!ˆÙ ˆÃÚ!ˆÑ‡" [dont-connect did-connect gnus-group-quit run-hooks gnus-startup-hook gnus-make-newsrc-file gnus-startup-file gnus-current-startup-file gnus-slave gnus-use-dribble-file gnus-dribble-read-file gnus-use-grouplens bbb-login add-hook gnus-summary-mode-hook gnus-grouplens-mode gnus-setup-news nil level gnus-setup-news-hook gnus-start-draft-setup gnus-group-list-groups gnus-group-first-unread-group gnus-configure-windows group gnus-group-set-mode-line gnus-started-hook] 4)
  gnus-1(nil nil nil)
  gnus(nil)
  call-interactively(gnus)
  command-execute(gnus t)
  execute-extended-command(nil)
  call-interactively(execute-extended-command)

Re: XEmacs-20/Emacs20 w/o MULE in qgnus-0.17

[SL Baur]

Danny Siu <dsiu@Adobe.COM> writes:

> When I try to start qgnus-0.17 with XEmacs-20.2/3 compiled *without* MULE and
> it complains that enable-multibyte-characters is not defined.

Yuck!  I think it's far, far worse having this ill-conceived variable
defined in XEmacs/Mule.

1997-12-05  SL Baur  <steve@altair.xemacs.org>

	* gnus-start.el (gnus-read-descriptions-file): Fix typo.

===================================================================
RCS file: RCS/gnus-start.el,v
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -u -r1.9 gnus-start.el
--- gnus-start.el	1997/11/26 18:57:00	1.9
+++ gnus-start.el	1997/12/06 00:17:28
@@ -2484,7 +2484,7 @@
 	      (let ((str (buffer-substring
 			  (point) (progn (end-of-line) (point))))
 		    (coding
-		     (and (boundp enable-multibyte-characters)
+		     (and (boundp 'enable-multibyte-characters)
 			  enable-multibyte-characters
 			  (gnus-mule-get-coding-system (symbol-name group)))))
 		(if coding