Dear Gnus, If you go to the attachment of this post and hit 'E', assuming that your Gnus doesn't know how to handle mimetype "application/octet-stream", you will then be prompted in minibuffer: View as MIME Type (default application/octet-stream): Now if you press any key an error message will be displayed: Error in post-command-hook: (wrong-type-argument stringp (text/xml)) And the biggest inconvenience is that it does not do completing-reading at all.