Bug or local setup C-w but not C-y in group buffer

Bug or local setup C-w but not C-y in group buffer

[Harry Putnam]

First a brief explanation:

I've switched over to using slrnpull for my main server and reading
with nnspool.  So far, coolio mundo.

I thought I'd use my regular NNTP server as a foreign server and
subscribe to a number of groups I previously kept above:
(setq gnus-agent-handle-level 3) and put them back in that capacity.

`B' in group buffer and get the list from my `old' nntp server. 
Painstakingly subscribed to some 20 groups or so.
Letting them accumulate at the bottom of group buffer.

Now to place them where I like them in the group buffer, I expected to
be able to use C-w after setting the region, and C-y to plop them down
where I wanted them in one move.  It ain't happening.

C-w works fine, but C-y doesn't and throws an error something like:
Wrong type argument ..blah blah stringp blah....

So now I've got the twenty groups C-w 'ed but can't get them
back. Undo doesn't help either.

I have to go into `A K' (killed groups) and find them, resub and move
them with C-k/C-y.

It seems to me its a bug to have C-w work but not C-y.  Either both or
neither would be more usefull.

Re: Bug or local setup C-w but not C-y in group buffer

[Kai Großjohann]

On 03 Apr 2001, Harry Putnam wrote:

> C-w works fine, but C-y doesn't and throws an error something like:
> Wrong type argument ..blah blah stringp blah....

Can you make a bug report, please?  Giving the exact error message,
possibly with a backtrace (M-x toggle-debug-on-error RET).  It's
clearly a bug.

kai
-- 
Be indiscrete.  Do it continuously.

Re: Bug or local setup C-w but not C-y in group buffer

[Harry Putnam]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> On 03 Apr 2001, Harry Putnam wrote:
> 
> > C-w works fine, but C-y doesn't and throws an error something like:
> > Wrong type argument ..blah blah stringp blah....
> 
> Can you make a bug report, please?  Giving the exact error message,
> possibly with a backtrace (M-x toggle-debug-on-error RET).  It's
> clearly a bug.

Yup