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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.

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