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From: Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>
Subject: Re: message about errors in .newsrc.eld on startup
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 23:36:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vg1bnngt.fsf@doohan.bang.priv.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3r8c0tnjh.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>

>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>:

> Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:

>> Perhaps we need a .newsrc.eld well formedness/syntax checker?

> Well, that's what you're seeing, basically.  :-)

I was thinking of one that would write the line number of the syntax
error. 

> These errors are usually the result of moving between different
> X/Emacs versions that use different read syntaxaei.  The cruft is
> usually at the end of the .newsrc.eld file.

This happened when Gnus in GNU Emacs was reading a .newsrc.eld written
by XEmacs.  I was about to do a diff between .newsrc.eld saved by
XEmacs and GNU Emacs, when I discovered that the problem had gone away
in a CVS update sometime.



  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-30 22:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-08  7:16 Steinar Bang
2002-12-29 23:26 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-12-30 22:36   ` Steinar Bang [this message]
2002-12-30 22:53     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-01-02 17:36   ` Simon Josefsson
2003-01-02 18:43     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-01-03 15:43     ` Kai Großjohann
2003-01-04  2:06       ` Jesper Harder

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