* F... F... Uh.
@ 1998-02-28 12:44 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-02-28 13:19 ` SL Baur
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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 1998-02-28 12:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Ok, so I'm trying not to use naughty words.
A user has sent me this backtrace from Emacs 20.2.89:
Signaling: (error "Invalid character: 4200, 4831827856, 0x0")
insert(" €0 : ")
(progn (insert (format "%c%c%c%s%5s: " gnus-tmp-marked-mark gnus-tmp-subscribed gnus-tmp-process-marked gnus-group-indentation gnus-tmp-number-of-unread)) (gnus-put-text-property (point) (progn ... ...) gnus-mouse-face-prop gnus-mouse-face) (insert gnus-tmp-grouplens "\n"))
[...]
gnus-group-insert-group-line("dummy.group" 0 nil 0 nil)
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)
Is
(insert ?\200)
allowed?
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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1998-02-28 12:44 F... F... Uh Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
@ 1998-02-28 13:19 ` SL Baur
1998-02-28 14:20 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
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From: SL Baur @ 1998-02-28 13:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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?
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread* Re: F... F... Uh.
1998-02-28 13:19 ` SL Baur
@ 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
2 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Lars Balker Rasmussen @ 1998-02-28 14:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:
> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:
> > A user has sent me this backtrace from Emacs 20.2.89:
>
> Hmmm, that sounds like an unreleased version.
Or the 89th build of Emacs 20.2?
> > It now does something like
>
> > (insert 128)
>
> That's kind of naughty.
Yes, well, I have a lot of problems with the functions in iso-insert
from Emacs 20.2, when trying to use a Mule'd emacs. Try
M-: (insert 248 248 248) RET C-a C-d
in a bare emacs-20 for laughs.
--
Lars Balker Rasmussen, Software Engineer, Mjolner Informatics ApS
lbr@mjolner.dk
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* Re: F... F... Uh.
1998-02-28 13:19 ` SL Baur
1998-02-28 14:20 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
@ 1998-03-01 1:10 ` William M. Perry
1998-03-01 12:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: William M. Perry @ 1998-03-01 1:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:
> 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).
This is known lossage with Emacs 20 - welcome to hell lars! Its not just
that you are inserting it without ?\200, but just that its a weird iso char
and you haven't done all the funky make-char crap on it. Even then, you
can still run into this grief. can you say, condition-case or special
lookup table? :)
-Bill P.
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* Re: F... F... Uh.
1998-02-28 13:19 ` SL Baur
1998-02-28 14:20 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
1998-03-01 1:10 ` William M. Perry
@ 1998-03-01 12:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 1998-03-01 12:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:
> 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?
Nope.
> Unreleased versions of emacs, like alpha versions of
> Gnus, are supposed to have bugs (much as we would like it to be
> otherwise).
That's true. I think I'll just let this one ride until Emacs 20.3 is
released and see whether it still is a problem there.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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