Re: emacs-21 and gnus

[Colin Marquardt <colin.marquardt@usa.alcatel.com>]

Colin Walters <walters@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:

> Colin Walters <walters@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
> 
>> How about the following?  I couldn't find a way to do this in
>> XEmacs; maybe an XEmacs guru will have a way to make it work there
>> too.
> 
> Well, I didn't realize that Emacs 20 and XEmacs both appear to have
> `overlay-arrow-string' and `overlay-arrow-position', too.
> 
> But at least in Emacs 20, the arrow will obscure the first two
> characters of the current summary line.  Maybe this isn't a problem?

Some users still might want that, true. If not, it adds some incentive
to switch to Emacs 21 ;-) 

What do they get on the console?

> Or maybe the thing to do would be to make it a user variable, and
> default it to true.  The people who dislike it could then set it to
> nil.  Thoughts?

Sounds reasonable to me. Or maybe set it to nil per default, and after
people start using and liking it, make t the default.

Unfortunately, I cannot really try your first patch since I still
didn't switch the either XEmacs 21.4 or Emacs 21 (which is more
likely to happen).

Cheers,
  Colin