[gnu.emacs] gnus/vm use of overlay-arrow-string

anthony@alberta.UUCP (Anthony Mutiso) (08/25/89)

I use VM(4.40) to read mail and GNUS(3.12) to read news.

In gnus overlay-arrow-string is used to provide the
gnus-more-message string in the article buffer. I have noticed the
following behaivour and would like to now if anyone else has noticed
this and/or fixed the problem.

   (1) The gnus-more-message string is ocassionally being repeated in
       the buffer from the end of the text to the bottom of the buffer
       window. 

   (2) If I start reading my mail, then move to reading news. On
       return to reading news the string in gnus-more-message will be
       used as my vm summary pointer instead of "->".

       The results of my excursion into the elisp code have found that
       vm, gnus, dbx and maybe a number of other buffer modes use the
       same variable "overlay-arrow-string" as a buffer pointer. The
       last one to set the variable keeps it that way. 

Does anyone have fix for these two problems.

Anthony

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