From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/13867 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eze Ogwuma Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Bad .newsrc.eld created by Gnus Date: 09 Feb 1998 18:57:11 +0000 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <6fk9b5kssq.fsf@bavur.dna.lth.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035153156 11596 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:32:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:32:36 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA29586 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 10:59:52 -0800 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA27467 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:56:49 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAN06329; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 13:33:06 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 09 Feb 1998 12:55:43 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA28953 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:55:34 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 13300 invoked by uid 504); 9 Feb 1998 18:55:29 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 13297 invoked from network); 9 Feb 1998 18:55:28 -0000 Original-Received: from mailhost.dircon.co.uk (194.112.32.10) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 9 Feb 1998 18:55:27 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (zcaceog@bh-cw01-022.pool.dircon.co.uk [194.112.51.22]) by mailhost.dircon.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA02386 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 18:55:18 GMT Original-Received: (from zcaceog@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA24478; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 18:57:12 GMT Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Kurt Swanson's message of "09 Feb 1998 10:53:57 +0100" Original-Lines: 50 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.23/Emacs 20.2 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13867 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13867 Kurt Swanson writes: > Per Abrahamsen writes: > > SL Baur writes: > > > > Eze Ogwuma writes: > > > > > This is part of my file. It is the only part that contains "#". > > > > > > (#("nntp+news.dircon.co.uk:comp.lang.java.help" 0 23 nil 23 42 > > > ... > > > > (#("nntp+news.dircon.co.uk:comp.lang.java.programmer" 0 23 nil 23 48 > > > > Who put in the #'s? That's not valid Emacs or XEmacs. > > > It look like Emacs print syntax for strings containing text properties. > > > They usually occur when someone calls `buffer-substring' instead of > > `buffer-substring-no-properties'. > > There's also the posibility it is a symbol denoting that the next > entity is a function, but I see this as less probable. Hrvoje Niksic writes: > That looks like the FSFmacs crockish syntax for strings with text > properties. Try this: > > (let ((a "somestring")) > (put-text-property 0 5 'foo 'bar a) > a) > => "somestring" ; XEmacs > > => #("somestring" 0 5 (foo bar) 5 10 nil) ; FSFmacs > > Familiar? In FSF Emacs text properties change the printed > representation of strings, and strings with properties might have > leaked to `.newsrc.eld', somehow. > > This matter is even more confusing because given that Common Lisp uses > #(...) syntax for vectors. Hi, Does anyone have some suggestions on how to proceed? -- Eze Ogwuma