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>>>>> 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.