Some fixes to follow coding conventions in files maintained by FSF.
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55535639 1;;; gnus-mule.el --- provide backward compatibility function to GNUS
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3;; Copyright (C) 1995,1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4;; Copyright (C) 1995, 2000 Electrotechnical Laboratory, JAPAN.
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6;; Maintainer: FSF
7;; Keywords: news, i18n
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9;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
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11;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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26;;; Commentary:
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28;; This file provides the function `gnus-mule-add-group' for backward
29;; compatibility with old version of Gnus included in Emacs 20.
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31;;; Code:
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33(require 'gnus-sum)
34
35;;;###autoload
36(defun gnus-mule-add-group (name coding-system)
37 "Specify that articles of news group NAME are encoded in CODING-SYSTEM.
38All news groups deeper than NAME are also the target.
39If CODING-SYSTEM is a cons, the car part is used and the cdr
40part is ignored.
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42This function exists for backward comaptibility with Emacs 20. It is
43recommended to customize the variable `gnus-group-charset-alist'
44rather than using this function."
45 (if (consp coding-system)
46 ;; Ignore the cdr part because now Gnus can't use different
47 ;; coding systems for encoding and decoding.
48 (setq coding-system (car coding-system)))
49 (let ((tail gnus-group-charset-alist)
50 (prev nil)
51 (pattern (concat "^" (regexp-quote name))))
52 ;; Check entries of `gnus-group-charset-alist' if they match NAME.
53 (while (not (string-match (car (car tail)) name))
54 (setq prev tail tail (cdr tail)))
55 (if tail
56 ;; A matching entry was found.
57 (if (string= pattern (car (car tail)))
58 ;; We can modify this entry.
59 (setcar (cdr (car tail)) coding-system)
60 ;; We must add a new entry before this.
61 (if prev
62 (setcdr prev (cons (list pattern coding-system)
63 (cdr prev)))
64 (setq gnus-group-charset-alist
65 (cons (list pattern coding-system)
66 gnus-group-charset-alist))))
67 ;; We must prepend a new entry.
68 (setq gnus-group-charset-alist
69 (cons (list pattern coding-system)
70 gnus-group-charset-alist)))))
71
72(provide 'gnus-mule)
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55535639 74;;; gnus-mule.el ends here