Re: gnus-summary-catchup turns ticked into unread

[Katsumi Yamaoka]

>>>>> Richard Stallman wrote:

>     I worry that changing the arguments list of such a generic function
>     in Emacs causes further confusion.

> I think that compatibility in the long term will do more good
> than the short-term confusion.

>     We might, if anything, give up using that argument, since it doesn't
>     seem to be very important in the codes in question actually.

> That means that Gnus can easily avoid being affected the confusion.
> Right?

Indeed.  I agreed with you, and made changes in Gnus so as not
to use the NORECORD argument in `pop-to-buffer's.  (The changes
will be merged into Emacs soon.)

> So I conclude it is ok to change this.

>       It also
>     might suggest that such arguments that are not indispensable and are
>     incompatible with versions of Emacsen will be doomed to be not used.

> I think that an arg which is compatible between future Emacs versions
> and XEmacs could be used easily enough, when there is a need to use it.

You're right.  It's much better than we do nothing.

> So I tend to think we should go ahead with this change,
> unless there is some other reason not to.