From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/29050 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christoph Rohland Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Can't customize nnimap groups Date: 02 Feb 2000 10:23:10 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87iu0gxdce.fsf@ghidra.vail> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035165787 526 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:03:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:03:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Hal Snyder , ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B907D051F for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 04:25:07 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id DAB20887; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 03:24:56 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 02 Feb 2000 03:24:18 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA09603 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 03:24:08 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from smtpde01.sap-ag.de (smtpde01.sap-ag.de [194.39.131.52]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F80ED051F for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 04:23:41 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sap-ag.de ([194.39.131.3]) by smtpde01.sap-ag.de (out) with ESMTP id KAA22564; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 10:21:18 +0100 (MEZ) Original-Received: from ls3010.wdf.sap-ag.de (ls3010.wdf.sap-ag.de [10.18.104.24]) by sap-ag.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA25440; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 10:23:10 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: (from d020782@localhost) by ls3010.wdf.sap-ag.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA30051; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 10:23:10 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: ls3010.wdf.sap-ag.de: d020782 set sender to hans-christoph.rohland@sap.com using -f Original-To: Simon Josefsson In-Reply-To: Simon Josefsson's message of "27 Jan 2000 22:29:53 +0100" Original-Lines: 28 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) XEmacs/21.1 (Bryce Canyon) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:29050 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:29050 Simon Josefsson writes: > Hal Snyder 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