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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: message about errors in .newsrc.eld on startup
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 23:53:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3n0mnglup.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vg1bnngt.fsf@doohan.bang.priv.no>

Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:

> I was thinking of one that would write the line number of the syntax
> error. 

Gnus loads the file by doing a `load', and gives you an error message
if the `load' fails.  So Gnus has no knowledge about line numbers at
that point.

But I could write a `gnus-load' that evals form by form and errors
with a line number when we get an error.  I've now done that.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen



  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-30 22:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-08  7:16 Steinar Bang
2002-12-29 23:26 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-12-30 22:36   ` Steinar Bang
2002-12-30 22:53     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2003-01-02 17:36   ` Simon Josefsson
2003-01-02 18:43     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-01-03 15:43     ` Kai Großjohann
2003-01-04  2:06       ` Jesper Harder

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