From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/47875 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pinard@iro.umontreal.ca (=?iso-8859-1?q?Fran=E7ois?= Pinard) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus 5.9.0 - Arithmetic error Date: 25 Nov 2002 17:20:53 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <84d6otk0a6.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <84r8d9v11n.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1038262867 24186 80.91.224.249 (25 Nov 2002 22:21:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 22:21:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18GRbC-0006HZ-00 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 23:21:02 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18GRbw-0002Yu-00; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 16:21:48 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 25 Nov 2002 16:22:36 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@[209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA20095 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 16:22:14 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 2651 invoked by alias); 25 Nov 2002 22:20:54 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 2642 invoked from network); 25 Nov 2002 22:20:54 -0000 Original-Received: from jaseur.sram.qc.ca (postfix@207.35.30.8) by gnus.org with SMTP; 25 Nov 2002 22:20:54 -0000 Original-Received: from carouge.sram.qc.ca.progiciels-bpi.ca (carouge-207.sram.qc.ca [207.35.30.105]) by jaseur.sram.qc.ca (Postfix on SuSE Linux 7.2 (i386)) with ESMTP id 590D33E84E; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 23:20:53 +0100 (CET) Original-To: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) X-Face: "b_m|CE6#'Q8fliQrwHl9K,]PA_o'*S~Dva{~b1n*)K*A(BIwQW.:LY?t4~xhYka_.LV?Qq `}X|71X0ea&H]9Dsk!`kxBXlG;q$mLfv_vtaHK_rHFKu]4'<*LWCyUe@ZcI6"*wB5M@[m Original-Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.92 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:47875 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:47875 [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