From: Florent Rougon <flo@via.ecp.fr>
Subject: Re: [solved] Problem with gnus-article-sort-by-date
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 18:42:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874pueyd1b.fsf@florent.maison> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873ba0s6uv.fsf@florent.maison> (Florent Rougon's message of "Sat, 07 Oct 2006 13:28:08 +0200")
Florent Rougon <flo@via.ecp.fr> wrote:
> (":Debian-\\(tetex\\|texlive\\|lmodern\\)-commits$"
>
> [irrelevant group parameters snipped]
>
> (gnus-article-sort-functions
> '(not gnus-article-sort-by-date)))
OK, I finally tracked down the problem and the conclusion is that I was
using a bad syntax for gnus-article-sort-functions: it was missing a
pair of parentheses around the "not gnus-article-sort-by-date".
Therefore, the problem is solved by using:
(":Debian-\\(tetex\\|texlive\\|lmodern\\)-commits$"
[irrelevant group parameters snipped]
(gnus-article-sort-functions
'((not gnus-article-sort-by-date))))
For those who tried to find out what was happening, the form whose
evaluation failed was equivalent to:
((lambda
(t1 t2)
(or
(gnus-article-sort-by-date t1 t2)
(and
(not
(gnus-article-sort-by-date t2 t1))
(not t1 t2))))
[889 "SVN tetex-doc-nonfree commit: r1660 - tetex-base/trunk/doc/pdftex/manual tetex-doc-nonfree/trunk/doc/pdftex/manual" "Frank Küster <frank@costa.debian.org>" "Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:13:03 +0000" "<E1GVTyB-0004V3-Du@costa.debian.org>" "" 456 20 "florent.maison Debian-tetex-commits:889"
((To . "debian-tex-maint@lists.debian.org"))]
[888 "SVN tetex-base commit: r1660 - tetex-base/trunk/doc/pdftex/manual tetex-doc-nonfree/trunk/doc/pdftex/manual" "Frank Küster <frank@costa.debian.org>" "Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:13:03 +0000" "<E1GVTyB-0004Ux-2G@costa.debian.org>" "" 456 20 "florent.maison Debian-tetex-commits:888"
((To . "debian-tex-maint@lists.debian.org"))]
)
The point of failure was the "(not t1 t2)". This means the lambda
expression returned by gnus-make-sort-function was wrong, and this is
because it was fed with invalid input (parentheses missing around the
not "gnus-article-sort-by-date").
I used a (setq gnus-use-byte-compile nil) early in my .emacs.el to avoid
the byte-compilation of the sort function by
gnus-make-sort-function---that was making the backtrace rather difficult
to use.
--
Florent
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