From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/38659 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Can't retreat either Date: 07 Sep 2001 07:30:18 -0700 Sender: reader@newsguy.com Message-ID: References: <2nzo87h4ur.fsf@piglet.jia.vnet> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035174486 23654 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:28:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:28:06 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 3640 invoked from network); 7 Sep 2001 14:30:24 -0000 Original-Received: from mail.networkone.net (209.144.112.246) by gnus.org with SMTP; 7 Sep 2001 14:30:24 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 18095 invoked from network); 7 Sep 2001 14:30:19 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO reader.local.lan) (209.144.117.151) by mail.networkone.net with SMTP; 7 Sep 2001 14:30:19 -0000 Original-Received: (from reader@localhost) by reader.local.lan (8.11.2/8.11.0) id f87EUI009873; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 07:30:18 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: reader.local.lan: reader set sender to reader@newsguy.com using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <2nzo87h4ur.fsf@piglet.jia.vnet> (ShengHuo ZHU's message of "Fri, 07 Sep 2001 02:50:20 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090003 (Oort Gnus v0.03) Emacs/21.0.104 Original-Lines: 51 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38659 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38659 ShengHuo ZHU writes: > Harry Putnam writes: > > [...] > > > Backtrace below, can someone see what the trouble is? > > `gnus-correct-length' appears only in ~/.newsrc.eld. Is not found in > > any of the *.el files under my gnus_03 tree. > > (setq gnus-format-specs nil) fixes the problem. Thanks.. Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes: [...] > That's right, you can just remove the (setq gnus-format-spec ...) > statement. I think this comes from (gnus-compile) in your .gnus file, > so it will be recreated the next time Gnus starts. No `gnus-compile' here: grep 'gnus-compile' .gnus Hasn't been recreated either. What does that chunk of code do anyway? Excised from .newsrc.eld (wrapped for mail): (setq gnus-format-specs '((version . "21.0.104.1") (summary-dummy " %(: :%) %S\n" (progn (insert " ") (gnus-put-text-property (point) (progn (insert ": :") (point)) gnus-mouse-face-prop gnus-mouse-face) (insert " " gnus-tmp-subject "\n"))) (summary-mode "Gnus: %g [%A] %Z" (concat (format "Gnus: %s [%d] %s" (gnus-short-group-name gnus-tmp-group-name) gnus-tmp-article-number gnus-tmp-unread-and-unselected))) (summary "%2t%U%R%7d%z%I%(%[%4L: %-20,20f%]%) %s\n" (progn (insert (format "%2d%c%c%7s%c%s" (gnus-summary-number-of-articles-in-thread (and (boundp 'thread) (car thread)) gnus-tmp-level) gnus-tmp-unread gnus-tmp-replied (gnus-dd-mmm (mail-header-date gnus-tmp-header)) gnus-tmp-score-char gnus-tmp-indentation)) (gnus-put-text-property (point) (progn (insert (format "%c%4s: %-20s%c" gnus-tmp-opening-bracket gnus-tmp-lines (let ((val (eval (gnus-summary-from-or-to-or-newsgroups gnus-tmp-header)))) (if (> (gnus-correct-length val) 20) (gnus-correct-substring val 0 20) val)) gnus-tmp-closing-bracket)) (point)) gnus-mouse-face-prop gnus-mouse-face) (insert " " gnus-tmp-subject-or-nil "\n")))))