Re: Can't customize nnimap groups

[Christoph Rohland <hans-christoph.rohland@sap.com>]

Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se> writes:

> Hal Snyder <hal@vailsys.com> writes:
> 
> > Doing "G c" on an nnimap group in the Group buffer builds the
> > customize screen up to "highlight regexps." then displays
> > 
> >   Wrong type argument: listp "428571428"
> > 
> > in the minibuffer. I can make changes in the buffer, but attempts to
> > save fail with "symbol's definition is void: nil" and it's necessary
> > to abort to get out of the buffer.
> 
> I tracked this down as a Customize or a Customize-usage problem in
> Gnus (I don't know the first thing about Customize so I couldn't tell
> the difference, even after edebuging through the lot of it), I think I
> mailed a bug report about it somewhere.
> 
> It should be possible to reproduce this problem simply by putting a
> group parameter such as
> 
> ((foo . "42"))

But this is only supported for know group parameters. Other variables
should be set with ((foo "42)). That's how I read the info file.

Greetings
		Christoph