Re: display word wrapping

[Miles Bader]

On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 11:55:28PM +0200, Kim F. Storm wrote:
> > _Nothing_ is seamless, but the version of Gnus proposed for merging is
> > apparently very stable (it's been the Gnus "stable" version for a year).
> 
> I meant from a user's point of view...  Can I continue using the
> (exact) same Gnus configuration and setup after the upgrade?

Yes

> If the new Gnus is stable, why does this have to take so much time?

Because the Emacs Gnus and the `Gnus Gnus' have not been kept in sync well
[there's been some occasional merging of changes, but if anything it's made
the situation worse, because as far as I can see it's only been done
haphazardly, and it's muddied the waters].

One of the big annoyances is the many `trivial changes' that have been done
to the emacs tree, e.g. whitespace tweaks, spelling fixes, etc., which tend
to hide real bugfixes merely by their huge quantity.

> Perhaps you could install the new Gnus now and later fix/merge changes
> from the current emacs CVS version if there are problems

I will do that if I must, but I'd like to see if I can do things properly
first.  I still have some hope I can sort things out.

> (I suppose you can do that easily with arch :-)

Ha, ha, I wish arch was magic like that ... :-)

Hopefully arch will make things easier in the future, but...  [I have been
careful to create the new Gnus arch tree in a way that it knows which files
correspond to each other in Emacs and Gnus.]

-Miles
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