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Hal Snyder <hal@vailsys.com> writes:

> Doing "G c" on an nnimap group in the Group buffer builds the
> customize screen up to "highlight regexps." then displays
> 
>   Wrong type argument: listp "428571428"
> 
> in the minibuffer. I can make changes in the buffer, but attempts to
> save fail with "symbol's definition is void: nil" and it's necessary
> to abort to get out of the buffer.

I tracked this down as a Customize or a Customize-usage problem in
Gnus (I don't know the first thing about Customize so I couldn't tell
the difference, even after edebuging through the lot of it), I think I
mailed a bug report about it somewhere.

It should be possible to reproduce this problem simply by putting a
group parameter such as

((foo . "42"))

or something, and invoke `gnus-group-customize'.