startup file and upgrading

startup file and upgrading

[hubert.fauque]

After upgrading to 0.75 (from semi-gnus) I have had
a problem: gnus stopped with the error
void function: gnus-truncate-string

that was surprising since there is no gnus-truncate-string
in 0.75; I have traced the problem to the .newsrc.eld
file which saved the old value (from semi-gnus) of
gnus-format-specs and restores it at startup;
maybe this problem is older because the value
of gnus-format-specs seems different from the one
of semi-gnus and it is perhaps an older value saved in the same way
when I upgraded from an old gnus version to semi-gnus.

I manually edited the .newsrc.eld file and suppressed
the initialization part, but I suppose this is not
the good way of dealing with this problem;
So my question is:
How to upgrade and avoid this problem?

Hubert

Re: startup file and upgrading

[Karl Eichwalder]

hubert.fauque@wanadoo.fr writes:

|   After upgrading to 0.75 (from semi-gnus) I have had
|   a problem: gnus stopped with the error
|   void function: gnus-truncate-string

Thanks for filing this report; I want to do it, too -- but since I found
a work around, I forgot about it.

ke@luna:/usr/share/emacs/20.3/lisp/gnus > grep gnus-truncate-string *.el
gnus-ems.el:    (defalias 'gnus-truncate-string 'truncate-string)

I've put
 
    (defalias 'gnus-truncate-string 'truncate-string)

into my .emacs (at work, where I'm using a more recent version of
pgnus); of course, I open to a better way to avoid the error message.

AFAI remember me, this error message only happens while entering certain
groups.

-- 
Karl Eichwalder

Re: startup file and upgrading

[hubert.fauque]

Karl Eichwalder <ke@gnu.franken.de> writes:

> 
> I've put
>  
>     (defalias 'gnus-truncate-string 'truncate-string)
> 
> into my .emacs (at work, where I'm using a more recent version of
> pgnus); of course, I open to a better way to avoid the error message.

with this method you are using the old gnus-format-specs
(from an old version of gnus)

> 
> AFAI remember me, this error message only happens while entering certain
> groups.
> 

for groups with headers longer than 20 characters

Hubert