From: pinard@iro.umontreal.ca (François Pinard)
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Gnus 5.9.0 - Arithmetic error
Date: 25 Nov 2002 17:20:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <oqadjxthoa.fsf@carouge.sram.qc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84r8d9v11n.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
[Kai Großjohann]
> Note that `M P a' comes from gnus-uu, which is intended for reading
> binary groups. The idea is that you get lots of messages with subject
> lines like `Horny Gnusae.mpg (42/4711)'. These might arrive out
> of order, so there might be a `Lazy Lars.jpg (1/2)' in between them.
> But `M P a' marks them in the `right' order. That's the `series order'
> part of the documentation.
> So you can see that `M P a' has to parse the subject lines.
Granted, and thanks for the explanations.
Yet, Gnus `M P a' should nevertheless protect itself against arithmetic
errors while evaluating subjects, (with `condition-case'?) and maybe
merely ignore offending subjects just as it there were no numbers in it.
Ideally, there should not often be Emacs errors in "normal" Gnus usage. :-)
P.S. - I would have guessed that `M P a' and `M P b' abbreviate `-all' and
`-binary', but in fact, they are both `all', while `b' is for `-buffer'.
--
François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-25 22:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-24 13:45 François Pinard
2002-11-25 17:49 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-11-25 20:24 ` François Pinard
2002-11-25 20:37 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-11-25 22:20 ` François Pinard [this message]
2002-11-26 7:42 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-11-26 13:10 ` François Pinard
2002-11-25 20:38 ` Jesper Harder
2002-11-25 22:12 ` François Pinard
2002-11-25 22:33 ` Jesper Harder
2002-11-25 23:27 ` Matthias Andree
2002-11-26 3:06 ` UTF-8 breakage (was: Re: Gnus 5.9.0 - Arithmetic error) François Pinard
2002-11-27 2:14 ` UTF-8 breakage Matthias Andree
2002-11-29 12:44 ` Matthias Andree
2002-12-01 13:11 ` Reiner Steib
2002-12-01 19:13 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-12-01 19:44 ` Lloyd Zusman
2002-12-01 20:48 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-12-01 20:56 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-12-02 2:32 ` Lloyd Zusman
2002-12-02 3:33 ` Ted Zlatanov
2002-12-07 17:31 ` Lloyd Zusman
2002-12-28 20:55 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-12-01 21:31 ` Reiner Steib
2002-12-02 0:03 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-12-02 11:42 ` Reiner Steib
2002-12-01 22:23 ` Jesper Harder
2002-12-10 19:33 ` Matthias Andree
2002-12-10 21:40 ` Reiner Steib
2002-12-11 8:13 ` Kai Großjohann
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