From: Shenghuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>
Cc: bugs@gnus.org (The Gnus Bugfixing Girls + Boys),
Gnus Mailing List <ding@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: Stringp-error when retrieving grouplist from news.newsfeeds.com
Date: 26 Oct 1999 21:59:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2nn1t54l7r.fsf@tiger.jia.vnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Andrew Markebo's message of "26 Oct 1999 22:53:48 +0200"
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>>>>> "AM" == Andrew Markebo <andrew.markebo@telelogic.se> writes:
AM> Pterodactyl Gnus v0.97
AM> GNU Emacs 20.4.2 (sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1, X toolkit)
AM> of Thu Jul 22 1999 on warp
AM> 200 127.0.0.1 DNEWS Version 5.2c, S7, posting OK
AM> What I did was ^ to enter the server buffer, jumped to
AM> news.newsfeeds.com, enter.. chew chew chew.. whammo
AM> Connecting to news.newsfeeds.com...
AM> Reading active file...
AM> Reading active file...done
AM> Wrong type argument: stringp, 100622.2474
AM> /Andy
AM> It is a huge list of articles.. here comes the backtrace:
AM> Signaling: (wrong-type-argument stringp 100622.2474)
AM> #[(l1 l2) "\b@ @(TM)‡" [l1 l2] 2]((100622.2474 . 1) (1a . 1))
AM> sort(((ercielt . 1) (erg2310b . 1) (ernmc\.firewall-1 . 1238)
[...]
AM> gnus-browse-foreign-server("news.newsfeeds.com" #<buffer *Server*>)
AM> gnus-server-read-server("news.newsfeeds.com")
AM> call-interactively(gnus-server-read-server)
I guess I've fixed it. The weird behavior is because of the all-digit
group. Could you test the patch (committed) ?
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Shenghuo
1999-10-26 21:44:05 Shenghuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>
* gnus-srvr.el (gnus-browse-foreign-server): Use
`buffer-substring' instead of `read'.
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Index: gnus-srvr.el
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/gnus/lisp/gnus-srvr.el,v
retrieving revision 5.11
diff -u -r5.11 gnus-srvr.el
--- gnus-srvr.el 1999/09/27 15:18:52 5.11
+++ gnus-srvr.el 1999/10/27 01:43:55
@@ -594,7 +594,9 @@
(delete-matching-lines gnus-ignored-newsgroups))
(while (not (eobp))
(ignore-errors
- (push (cons (read cur)
+ (push (cons (let ((p (point)))
+ (skip-chars-forward "^ \t")
+ (buffer-substring p (point)))
(max 0 (- (1+ (read cur)) (read cur))))
groups))
(forward-line))))
next parent reply other threads:[~1999-10-27 1:59 UTC|newest]
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1999-10-27 1:59 ` Shenghuo ZHU [this message]
1999-10-27 3:36 ` An un-decoded-QP bug and its patch (was: Re: Stringp-error when retrieving grouplist from news.newsfeeds.com) Shenghuo ZHU
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