From: Bill White <billw@wolfram.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Gnus 5.6.38 and Emacs 20.3
Date: 22 Aug 1998 12:10:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ruo67flndre.fsf@banshee.wolfram.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: François Pinard's message of "22 Aug 1998 08:44:01 -0400"
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Lars came up with the right answer. I had just upgraded to Emacs 20.3
(my first emacs upgrade) and just copied all the .el and .elc files
from 20.2's site-lisp dir to 20.3's. All I had to do was delete the
.elc files & byte-compile with 20.3. Problem solved!
Cheers -
bw
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François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> Bill White <billw@wolfram.com> writes:
>
> > Attempt to set a constant symbol: :-pos
>
> > Is there something more I could report to help debug things?
>
> Grrr! I'm sure I've seen this problem before, a while ago in fact, and
> I remember that the mere solution was to rename a few variables all over
> some Emacs LISP source. The sad thing is that I do not remember which,
> nor why. It was something like changing `...:-pos' to `...:-position',
> maybe. I likely reported the problem, whatever it was. The trick Lars
> gave you, that is "(setq debug-on-error t)", should help you identifying
> where the problem occurred, at least.
>
> --
> François Pinard mailto:pinard@iro.umontreal.ca
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-08-22 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-08-20 22:30 Bill White
1998-08-20 23:00 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-08-21 10:56 ` Harald Meland
1998-08-21 14:33 ` Simon Josefsson
1998-08-23 16:33 ` Harald Meland
1998-08-21 19:11 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-08-22 17:48 ` SL Baur
1998-08-22 18:06 ` Karl Kleinpaste
1998-08-22 18:13 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-08-22 19:50 ` Harold G. Stevenson
1998-08-23 5:42 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
1998-08-23 10:55 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-08-23 16:39 ` Harald Meland
1998-08-22 12:44 ` François Pinard
1998-08-22 17:10 ` Bill White [this message]
1998-08-22 17:28 ` Hrvoje Niksic
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