From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Subject: Re: message about errors in .newsrc.eld on startup
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 18:36:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <iluznqj4fp7.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3r8c0tnjh.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Mon, 30 Dec 2002 00:26:10 +0100")
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:
>
>> When I start up Gnus, I get the error message
>> Error in /home/sb/.newsrc.eld; continue? (yes or no)
>>
>> When I type "yes" and press RET, everything seems to work normally.
>> But the message is annoying. Does anyone have a good trick to trace
>> it down and fix it manually?
>>
>> Perhaps we need a .newsrc.eld well formedness/syntax checker?
>
> Well, that's what you're seeing, basically. :-)
>
> 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.
I always need to remove the `(setq gnus-format-specs ...)' line when
moving between emacses nowadays, because it contains byte compiled
stuff. Has this changed? Can't this be computed during startup
instead? I can't spot anything in my .emacs related to this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-02 17:36 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
2002-12-30 22:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-01-02 17:36 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
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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