From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/16178 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hrvoje Niksic Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus 5.6.38 and Emacs 20.3 Date: 22 Aug 1998 19:28:21 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035155089 26244 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:04:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:04:49 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org (gwyn.tux.org [207.96.122.8]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA05222 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 10:29:02 -0700 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA09626 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 13:30:28 -0400 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAK17863; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 12:30:19 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 22 Aug 1998 12:28:39 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA17850 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 12:28:29 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from jagor.srce.hr (hniksic@jagor.srce.hr [161.53.2.130]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA07709 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 13:28:23 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from hniksic@localhost) by jagor.srce.hr (8.9.0/8.9.0) id TAA01699; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 19:28:21 +0200 (MET DST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Attribution: Hrvoje X-Face: Mie8:rOV<\c/~z{s.X4A{!?vY7{drJ([U]0O=W/xDi&N7XG KV^$k0m3Oe/)'e%3=$PCR&3ITUXH,cK>]bci&Ff%x_>1`T(+M2Gg/fgndU%k*ft [(7._6e0n-V%|%'[c|q:;}td$#INd+;?!-V=c8Pqf}3J In-Reply-To: François Pinard's message of "22 Aug 1998 08:44:01 -0400" Original-Lines: 23 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.37/XEmacs 21.0 - "Danish Landrace" Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:16178 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:16178 François Pinard writes: > Bill White writes: > > > Attempt to set a constant symbol: :-pos > > > Is there something more I could report to help debug things? > > Grrr! I'm sure I've seen this problem before, a while ago in fact, > and I remember that the mere solution was to rename a few variables > all over some Emacs LISP source. The sad thing is that I do not > remember which, nor why. It was something like changing `...:-pos' > to `...:-position', maybe. No, it's `:-pos' to `colon-pos'. The file in question is `mail/mail-extr.el', and the problem occurs because Emacs 20 supports unquoted keywords, and signals an error if you try to assign a different value to them. -- Hrvoje Niksic | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia --------------------------------+-------------------------------- I'm a Lisp variable -- bind me!