On 2014-08-07 04:16, david.goldberg6@verizon.net (Dave Goldberg) writes:

>> The problem may be a missing autoload somewhere. If I had the following
>> to my init file, then I can start gnus.
>
>> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>> (autoload 'gnus-get-text-property-excluding-characters-with-faces "gnus-util")
>> #+end_src
>
>> Should this be considered a bug? If so, where do I report it?
>
> Perhaps my earlier inquiry didn't get through.

It did, but as I found a way around the bug, I did not reply, sorr.

> Any chance you are running on Fedora 19 or later?

No, I'm on OS X.

> I encountered what I think is the same issue about this time last
> year.  Fedora delivers a site-start.el file that results in an older
> version of gnus-util to be loaded at startup, prior to .emacs, thereby
> overruling any load-path fixes you might make there.  I reported it to
> RedHat but never did get a response.  My solution is to remove that
> site-start.el.  For historical context see
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/83524 and the
> follow up thread
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/83565

I've looked at the site-start.el files (both from the provided emacs
and from my homebrew installation) and they do not mention
gnus-util. I've started emacs with the '-q' option and I don't see it in
the features variable.

This may be a bug local only to my setup, but I'm not sure how to
investigate it.

Best,

Alan

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