Re: emacs-19.el disturbs gnus

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Sandy writes:

> Looks to me like you are trying to run the V19 gnus in emacs 18.

I also do this.  I run gnus 4.1 kindly distributed by Karl Kleinpaste under
18.59 and ran into the same problem.  I solved it by a trival change to gnus
in 2 places.

> emacs-19.el shouldn't be loading otherwise.  If gnus is going to try to be
> V18 backwards compatible, it should do a better job of grokking the emacs
> version; something like

> (string-equal (substring emacs-version 0 2) "19")

> Rather than a doubtful heuristic like (fboundp 'current-time).

Seconded.  Anybody can define current-time and confuse gnus.

					-- ange -- <><

					ange@hplb.hpl.hp.com

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