Extra '-- ' when using 'gnus-alias-select-identity'

Extra '-- ' when using 'gnus-alias-select-identity'

[Loris Bennett]

Hi,

Since upgrading from Emacs 27.1 to 28.2 (via the upgrade from Debian 11
to 12), when I use
 
  gnus-alias-select-identity
 
the signature is correctly changed, but now an additional line
containing

  -- 

is inserted above the identical line which marks the beginning of the
signature (the error is show below).  Further switching of the identity
has also works but always results in there being two such lines above
the signature.

Does anyone know what is happening and how I can prevent this extra line
from appearing?

Cheers,

Loris
 
-- 
-- 
This signature is currently under constuction.

Re: Extra '-- ' when using 'gnus-alias-select-identity'

[Bob Newell]

On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 3:42 PM Loris Bennett
<loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> wrote:

> Since upgrading from Emacs 27.1 to 28.2 (via the upgrade from Debian 11
> to 12), when I use
>
>   gnus-alias-select-identity
>
> the signature is correctly changed, but now an additional line
> containing
>
>   --
>
> is inserted above the identical line which marks the beginning of the
> signature (the error is show below).  Further switching of the identity
> has also works but always results in there being two such lines above
> the signature.

I noticed this as well back when I did an Emacs update.  But it was
because I already had the "--" as the top line of my sig file.   I
removed the "--" from the file and that was the answer.  Don't know if
that will be the case for you but it might.

-- 
Bob Newell
Honolulu, Hawai`i

Via Linux/Emacs/Gnus/BBDB.

Re: Extra '-- ' when using 'gnus-alias-select-identity'

[Loris Bennett]

Bob Newell <bobnewell@bobnewell.net> writes:

> On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 3:42 PM Loris Bennett
> <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
>> Since upgrading from Emacs 27.1 to 28.2 (via the upgrade from Debian 11
>> to 12), when I use
>>
>>   gnus-alias-select-identity
>>
>> the signature is correctly changed, but now an additional line
>> containing
>>
>>   --
>>
>> is inserted above the identical line which marks the beginning of the
>> signature (the error is show below).  Further switching of the identity
>> has also works but always results in there being two such lines above
>> the signature.
>
> I noticed this as well back when I did an Emacs update.  But it was
> because I already had the "--" as the top line of my sig file.   I
> removed the "--" from the file and that was the answer.  Don't know if
> that will be the case for you but it might.

I briefly thought that might be the issue, but I don't actually use sig
files any more.  I define a variable like

  (setq lb/newsgroup-sig "This signature is currently under constuction.")

and then use this in 'gnus-alias-identity-alist':

    (setq gnus-alias-identity-alist
	  '(("Newsgroup"
	     ""
	     "\"Loris Bennett\" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de>"
	     "ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin"
	     nil
	     ""
	     lb/newsgroup-sig)
             ...
             ))

I had this setup prior to the update and it seemed to work OK.

Cheers,

Loris

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-- 
This signature is currently under constuction.