From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/48572 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: message about errors in .newsrc.eld on startup Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 18:36:04 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87d6stx1jr.fsf@home.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1041528976 28983 80.91.224.249 (2 Jan 2003 17:36:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 17:36:16 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18U9GL-0007WP-00 for ; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 18:36:09 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18U9GY-000210-00; Thu, 02 Jan 2003 11:36:22 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 02 Jan 2003 11:37:15 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from yxa.extundo.com (178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net [217.13.230.178]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA24066 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 11:37:03 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from latte.josefsson.org (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h02Ha4Rr013929 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 18:36:04 +0100 Original-To: ding@hpc.uh.edu Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Payment: hashcash 1.1 0:030102:ding@hpc.uh.edu:df094e0bf0ac4e4b X-Hashcash: 0:030102:ding@hpc.uh.edu:df094e0bf0ac4e4b In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Mon, 30 Dec 2002 00:26:10 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:48572 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:48572 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Steinar Bang 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.