[Orgmode] Re: [PATCH] better links to Gnus articles

[Ulf Stegemann]

Tassilo Horn <address@hidden> wrote:

> Ulf Stegemann <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I've just updated to the latest git version and it seems that the
>> patch in questions breaks linking to Gnus articles. I'm using XEmacs
>> 21.4.21 and No Gnus v0.9.
>
> Hm, I tried to setup XEmacs 21.4.21 and ngnus-0.10 (0.9 is not listed at
> gnus.org), but when do (require 'gnus) I get:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Cannot open load file"
> "jka-compr")

[...]

> Where do I get jka-compr for XEmacs?

It's part of the 'os-utils' package.

> Hm, that indicates that `org-gnus-store-link' returned nil.  You could
> do me a favour and edebug `org-gnus-store-link' and see what's going
> wrong.  There might me some differences between emacs and XEmacs I'm not
> aware of.

In fact org-gnus wasn't even loaded. The reason was that XEmacs'
`defvaralias' (line 41) doesn't accept an optional third argument as
Emacs does. Once this had been fixed, org-gnus was loaded without
problems and worked right away.

While testing the new version I've noticed that links are now made up of
<group>#<message-id> instead of <group>#<article number>, at least for
nnml groups. This means that links created with the new version are not
usable with older versions. And this might be a problem since the same set
of org files is often used on different computers with possibly
different versions of org-mode.

Ulf