From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/54676 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Shutko Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Starting Gnus litters my files with ill-tasting cookies ... Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 15:00:16 -0600 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <87y8uvx3gp.fsf@wesley.springies.com> References: <537D2148-0F04-11D8-BF74-00306558A4D4@iparadigms.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067979682 14539 80.91.224.253 (4 Nov 2003 21:01:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 21:01:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M3217@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Nov 04 22:01:20 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AH8Ii-00022i-00 for ; Tue, 04 Nov 2003 22:01:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AH8Ia-0002sH-00; Tue, 04 Nov 2003 15:01:12 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AH8IW-0002sC-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 04 Nov 2003 15:01:08 -0600 Original-Received: from mxsf20.cluster1.charter.net (mxsf20.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.220]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CACD3A004F for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 15:01:07 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from wesley.springies.com (24.107.193.134.charter-stl.com [24.107.193.134]) by mxsf20.cluster1.charter.net (8.12.10/8.12.8) with ESMTP id hA4L0Wo4053162 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 16:00:33 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from ats@acm.org) Original-Received: from ats by wesley.springies.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1AH8Hw-0006zC-00 for ; Tue, 04 Nov 2003 15:00:32 -0600 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <537D2148-0F04-11D8-BF74-00306558A4D4@iparadigms.com> (James Felix Black's message of "Tue, 4 Nov 2003 12:20:26 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54676 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54676 James Felix Black writes: > Starting Gnus for me leads to nasty coding cookies being added against > my will to files. This breaks my builds. This is not acceptable. > Why is this happening? Because you're using a slightly old CVS Emacs, which has broken add-hook when it deals with local variables, and BBDB, which tries to set local-write-file-functions. An Emacs CVS checkin was recently made to fix this. -- Alan Shutko - I am the rocks. Bad day: Spouse is reading "Celibacy, The Secret Weapon."