[Kai Großjohann]

> pinard@iro.umontreal.ca (François Pinard) writes:

> > command `M P a' yields:
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------->
> > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (range-error "truncate" 40000000000001.0)

> Whee.

> I think it will be very difficult to change Gnus to use strings as
> article numbers instead of numbers.

Did I ever ask for this?  I just wanted to mark all articles, quickly.
I often use it.

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M P a runs the command gnus-uu-mark-all
   which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `gnus-uu'.
(gnus-uu-mark-all)

Mark all articles in "series" order.
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> Maybe it's easier to implement bignums in Emacs Lisp.  A workaround
> for your problem, of course, is to say something like `9 9 9 9 #'.

I am vaguely reading that you say that it is not a Gnus problem.  I would
not think Gnus should ever raise an Emacs error because the Subject line is
unexpected.  There is a lot of noise in the flurry of messages we receive,
and Gnus should be solid as rock against random subjects.  At first glance,
I would believe that `M P a' should mark all articles, as its name implies.

-- 
François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard