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Carsten Leonhardt <leo@arioch.oche.de> writes:

>>>>>> "sb" == Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:
sb> Yup.  Perhaps that is the cause of your troubles since you're
sb> bombing around an overlayp.  The defalias isn't required.

> I found two troublespots:

> 1. I think you don't use a vanilla Gnus.

I see.  beta10 got applied a patch from MORIOKA Tomohiko to deal with
the canna-use-color problem and some of it applied to gnus-util as you 
note.  Evidently it didn't get reported to Lars through gnus-bug
(which I've just done).

>    If I redefine the funcion like this, my "external" Gnus starts
>    working, so it isn't surprising that you don't see the problem.

When I updated working/beta11 with Gnus 5.4.39 the previous patch got
lost, so I wasn't using it when I wrote the above.

> 2. Executing (overlay-lists) [in a buffer without overlays, I guess]
>    returns "(nil nil)", in GNU Emacs it returns "(nil)".

That's an Emacs bug (at the minimum a doc bug).
[From 19.34]:
overlay-lists: a built-in function.

Return a pair of lists giving all the overlays of the current buffer.
       ^ ^^^ ^^  ^^^^^

(nil) doesn't look like `a pair of lists' to me.  If the doc string is 
wrong the problem is easily fixed.  Who knows enough about overlays to 
say what is correct?
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