Re: wrong number of arguments (Re: void-variable deactivate-mark)

[Nevin Kapur <nevin@jhu.edu>]

Reiner Steib <4uce.02.r.steib@gmx.net> writes:

> On Tue, Nov 26 2002, Kai Großjohann wrote:
>
> That's fine for me too. `111111 / o' too. Could you (or someone else)
> try `/ o' without any prefix argument?

I get the same error as you, again only without a prefix argument.

Signaling: (wrong-type-argument number-char-or-marker-p (1 . 47902))
  =((1 . 47902) 47903)
  (cond ((= ... ...) (setq list1 ... list2 ...)) ((< ... ...) (setq out ...) (setq list1 ...)) (t (setq list2 ...)))
  (while (and list1 list2) (cond (... ...) (... ... ...) (t ...)))
  (let (out) (while (and list1 list2) (cond ... ... ...)) (nconc (nreverse out) list1))
  gnus-sorted-difference(((1 . 47902)) (47903 47904 47905 47906 47907 47908 47909 47910 47911 47912))
  gnus-summary-insert-articles(((1 . 47902)))
  gnus-summary-insert-old-articles(nil)
  call-interactively(gnus-summary-insert-old-articles)

>> And `/ o 10 RET' also works.
>
> I don't understand this (maybe I'm too tired): `10 RET' after `/ o'?
> Gives me the backtrace immediately after `/ o'

I think it depends on your value of gnus-large-newsgroup.  If the
number old articles is greater than that then Gnus will prompt you for
a number.  Hitting RET then produces the error.  If the number of old
articles is smaller than g-l-n, then I immediately see the error.

-Nevin