Re: nnir.el error

[Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>]

Andreas Seltenreich <andreas+ding@gate450.dyndns.org> writes:
> Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org> writes:
>
>> I just downloaded nnir.el from CVS and tried to run it with swish-e. I
>> added
>>
>>  gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnml ""
>>                                        (nnml-directory "~/Gnus/Groups/")
>>                                        (nnml-use-compressed-files t)
>>                                        (nnir-search-engine swish-e)
>>                                        (nnir-swish-e-index-files ("/home/nikratio/Gnus/swish-e/index.swish-e"))
>>                                        (nnir-swish-e-remove-prefix "/home/nikratio/Gnus/swish-e/") )
>>                                  (nnimap ""
>>                                          (nnimap-server-address "xxxx")
>>                                          (nnimap-stream starttls)
>>                                          (nnir-search-engine imap)))
>>
>> to my configuration and created the index file. However, when I run G
>> G in the Group Buffer, this results in
>>
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument arrayp nil)
>>   aset(nil 0 228)
>>   (mail-header-set-number novitem art)
>
> I faintly remember that this was the reason I once resorted to
> manually switching the global variables around instead of using server
> variables to search with multiple engines.
>
> Does it work for you with nnir.el from CVS plus the following patch
> and nnir-mail-backend set to nil (it isn't by default)?

No, similar error:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument arrayp nil)
  aset(nil 0 306)
  (mail-header-set-number novitem art)
  (while (not (null artlist)) (setq art (car artlist)) (or (numberp art) (nnheader-report ... "nnir-retrieve-headers doesn't grok message ids: %s" art)) (setq artitem (nnir-artlist-article nnir-artlist art)) (setq artrsv (nnir-artitem-rsv artitem)) (setq artfullgroup (nnir-artitem-group artitem)) (setq artno (nnir-artitem-number artitem)) (setq artgroup (gnus-group-real-name artfullgroup)) (setq server (nnir-group-server artfullgroup)) (set-buffer nntp-server-buffer) (nnir-possibly-change-server server) (let (...) (case ... ... ... ...)) (mail-header-set-number novitem art) (mail-header-set-from novitem (mail-header-from novitem)) (mail-header-set-subject novitem (format "[%d: %s/%d] %s" artrsv artgroup artno ...)) (push novitem novdata) (setq artlist (cdr artlist)))
  (let ((artlist ...) (art nil) (artitem nil) (artgroup nil) (artno nil) (artrsv nil) (artfullgroup nil) (novitem nil) (novdata nil) (foo nil) server) (while (not ...) (setq art ...) (or ... ...) (setq artitem ...) (setq artrsv ...) (setq artfullgroup ...) (setq artno ...) (setq artgroup ...) (setq server ...) (set-buffer nntp-server-buffer) (nnir-possibly-change-server server) (let ... ...) (mail-header-set-number novitem art) (mail-header-set-from novitem ...) (mail-header-set-subject novitem ...) (push novitem novdata) (setq artlist ...)) (setq novdata (nreverse novdata)) (set-buffer nntp-server-buffer) (erase-buffer) (mapcar (quote nnheader-insert-nov) novdata) (quote nov))
  (save-excursion (let (... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... server) (while ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...) (setq novdata ...) (set-buffer nntp-server-buffer) (erase-buffer) (mapcar ... novdata) (quote nov)))
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   --Nikolaus

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