bug#35383: 27.0.50; Complete process of decoding Gnus group names

["Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

>> I noticed gnus-start.el (already) uses seq.el functions without first
>> loading the library, so how about the following minor addendum?
>
> It does require gnus.el, though, which requires seq, so I figured that
> was good enough -- no compiler warnings, anyway.

I think it's customary (if not better) for each translation unit to load
its own dependencies, without depending on dependencies to do so, but I
don't know whether this falls in bikeshedding territory.

>> (defun gnus-subscribe-alphabetically (newgroup)
>> "Subscribe new NEWGROUP and insert it in alphabetical order."
>> - (let ((groups (cdr gnus-group-list))
>> - before)
>> - (while (and (not before) groups)
>> - (if (string< newgroup (car groups))
>> - (setq before (car groups))
>> - (setq groups (cdr groups))))
>> + (let ((before (seq-find (lambda (group)
>> + (string< newgroup group))
>> + (cdr gnus-group-list))))
>> (gnus-subscribe-newsgroup newgroup before)))
>
> Looks fine to me! I'll just add this to the patch?

Yes please, thanks,

-- 
Basil