From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/84747 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: david.goldberg6@verizon.net (Dave Goldberg) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Missing function 'gnus-get-text-property-excluding-characters-with-faces' using gnus from git Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 22:16:42 -0400 Message-ID: <84oavxcad1.fsf@davestoy.home> References: <87bns5xxzu.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1407377875 21055 80.91.229.3 (7 Aug 2014 02:17:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 02:17:55 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M32990@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Aug 07 04:17:47 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XFDH0-0007gs-0W for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2014 04:17:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1XFDGH-0005K3-HD; Wed, 06 Aug 2014 21:17:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1XFDGF-0005Jr-1l for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 06 Aug 2014 21:16:59 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1XFDGD-0005gc-Ph for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 06 Aug 2014 21:16:58 -0500 Original-Received: from vms173021pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.21]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XFDGC-0002nQ-7S for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2014 04:16:56 +0200 Original-Received: from davestoy.home.verizon.net ([unknown] [71.184.207.237]) by vms173021.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0N9W00LY8ZNUY550@vms173021.mailsrvcs.net> for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 06 Aug 2014 21:16:43 -0500 (CDT) X-Face: W!bie|rYVd43O:2CkHTb*~s5}Yzx30X<@6Tq_bnP56Hp!xX4sVl4tgYRirjRcke\wfY!JJ9 i?]VIUJicJzq2\!3%7$5R%wi!R[.]Va97q In-reply-to: (Alan Schmitt's message of "Wed, 06 Aug 2014 09:29:21 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -1.2 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:84747 Archived-At: > The problem may be a missing autoload somewhere. If I had the following > to my init file, then I can start gnus. > #+begin_src emacs-lisp > (autoload 'gnus-get-text-property-excluding-characters-with-faces "gnus-util") > #+end_src > Should this be considered a bug? If so, where do I report it? Perhaps my earlier inquiry didn't get through. Any chance you are running on Fedora 19 or later? I encountered what I think is the same issue about this time last year. Fedora delivers a site-start.el file that results in an older version of gnus-util to be loaded at startup, prior to .emacs, thereby overruling any load-path fixes you might make there. I reported it to RedHat but never did get a response. My solution is to remove that site-start.el. For historical context see http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/83524 and the follow up thread http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/83565 -- Dave Goldberg david.goldberg6@verizon.net