From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/88711 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: 'g' on Topic line in group buffer gives error Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 06:27:33 -0700 Message-ID: <87r25jexbu.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87v9uwwfdf.fsf@bobnewell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="226162"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M36915@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Aug 17 15:29:00 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hyylP-000wd1-S6 for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 17 Aug 2019 15:29:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1hyykL-0005Em-Jj; Sat, 17 Aug 2019 08:27:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1hyykF-0005C5-Fl for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 17 Aug 2019 08:27:47 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1hyykE-0008FR-0Y for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 17 Aug 2019 08:27:47 -0500 Original-Received: from 195-159-176-226.customer.powertech.no ([195.159.176.226] helo=blaine.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hyykA-0007jW-30 for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 17 Aug 2019 15:27:44 +0200 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hyyk8-000vH9-N5 for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 17 Aug 2019 15:27:40 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:B44LjRRHUkmOSNXtTTWIpId5nDk= List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:88711 Archived-At: Bob Newell writes: > Aloha, > > Before reporting this as a bug, I'd like to ask if anyone else sees this > behavior (my gnus startup file has become, um, complex and I sometimes > make my own trouble). > > I use topics in the group buffer, and I fetch mail with 'g'. If the > cursor is on a line with a group name, no trouble. If the cursor is on a > topic name or a blank line, I get one of those number-or-marker-p > errors. My guess is that gnus is trying find out if there are unread > articles but doesn't have a valid group name. Only a guess. > > There are many possible workarounds and I have one in place, but still. > > Anyone else see this, or is it just my weird and convoluted setup[1]? I'm not seeing this, but it certainly sounds like the kind of bug I might have introduced recently. Are you using Emacs from git master? Can you do toggle-debug-on-error and send a full backtrace? Eric