Re: Invalid Data on Line 1 - Please Help!

[Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com>]

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>>>>> "KG" == Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com> writes:

   KG> 4) Start gnus as usual.
   KG> 5) Proceed until you get thrown into the debugger.

   KG> 6) While in the debugger, eval (current-buffer).  If that buffer isn't
   KG>    visible, select it so that you can see what is wrong with line 1.

   KG> 7) Exit gnus, edit the broken file to fix line 1, then start gnus to
   KG>    see if you're OK.

   KG> I'd appreciate it if you'd post which file had the invalid line and
   KG> also the invalid line itself.  Gnus may not be able to avoid the error
   KG> but it should, if at all possible, handle it with more grace.


I've left just enough of your post to give some context.

Just before I saw your reply, I completed my fight with edebug to gain some
insight into what's going on.

The problem is in (gnus-nov-parse-line).  It correctly parses all of the
components of the header line and then calls (widen).  It is there that the
error is triggered.

I am not sure what's going on but I have my suspicions.  I recently loaded a
new library: narrow-stack.el.  This package has the following line:

        (ad-enable-advice 'widen 'before 'ns-widen-advice))

I strongly suspect that this is the cause of the problem, though I have no
idea why.  I have removed narrow-stack.el and will see whether my problem
goes away.

In case you are interested, I am attaching narrow-stack.el with this
message.  Please let me know what you think of my diagnosis.

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