From: SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org>
Subject: Re: F... F... Uh.
Date: 28 Feb 1998 05:19:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2wwefuary.fsf@altair.xemacs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "28 Feb 1998 13:44:56 +0100"
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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:
> Ok, so I'm trying not to use naughty words.
> A user has sent me this backtrace from Emacs 20.2.89:
Hmmm, that sounds like an unreleased version. Can I presume this has
been pointed out to Richard and he has indicated it is a new feature
and not a bug? Unreleased versions of emacs, like alpha versions of
Gnus, are supposed to have bugs (much as we would like it to be
otherwise).
> Signaling: (error "Invalid character: 4200, 4831827856, 0x0")
> insert(" €0 : ")
...
> What is happening here is that Gnus is trying to insert \200 into a
> buffer, and Emacs (no longer) will let it. What is now the proper
> incantation?
> It now does something like
> (insert 128)
That's kind of naughty.
> Is
> (insert ?\200)
That would be better. One is going to come to grief sooner or later
being too cavalier about mixing characters and integers in XEmacs 20.
> allowed?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-02-28 13:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-02-28 12:44 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-28 13:19 ` SL Baur [this message]
1998-02-28 14:20 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
1998-03-01 12:52 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-03-01 1:10 ` William M. Perry
1998-03-01 12:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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