* Re: MULE bites
1999-02-16 15:27 MULE bites Kai.Grossjohann
@ 1999-02-16 16:05 ` Vladimir Volovich
1999-02-19 16:22 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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From: Vladimir Volovich @ 1999-02-16 16:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ding
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"KG" == Kai Grossjohann writes:
KG> Okay, this is the first time I've been bitten by MULE (at least I
KG> presume that's where the error comes from). I nnoo'd a new
KG> backend, inheriting most of the stuff from nnmbox. I created a
KG> server for this backend. I added a message with a Latin-1
KG> character. Now, when typing `g' in the group buffer, I get asked
KG> (two times, I've got two groups): Revisit file literally?
KG> When I say yes, I get that dreaded \201 thingy.
KG> What do I do now?
unfortunately, this seems to be a hard-to-fix bug in Emacs/MULE. I
also "suffer" from this problem: from time to time, when i receive
mails to my mbox which contain some binary characters, this leads to
brokenness of Gnus' dealing with my mbox. Each time pressing `g' in a
group buffer starts to take a LOT of time (with bug mbox size, such as
10MB and more); note that if the mbox does not contain those `broken'
messages with some bytes which confuse MULE (or gnus?), pressing `g'
takes much less than a second (if there are no new messages). And
also, in this case article numbering in group buffer reported by gnus
becomes broken (commonly overestimated by 1 or 2). Lars some time ago
made the following patch for files.el which "hides" the Emacs'
questions "Revisit file literally?", but this patch ODES NOT SOLVE THE
REAL PROBLEM: the above-mentioned symptoms are still valid; and they
are TRIGGERED by the presence in the mbox of some `broken' messages (i
have some examples and could send them). So, i'd be grateful to you if
you could report this problem to RMS.
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--- /usr/share/emacs/20.3/lisp/files.el~ Fri Oct 2 14:27:51 1998
+++ /usr/share/emacs/20.3/lisp/files.el Fri Oct 2 14:27:57 1998
@@ -928,8 +928,9 @@
(buffer-name buf))))
(with-current-buffer buf
(revert-buffer t t)))))
- (when (not (eq rawfile (not (null find-file-literally))))
- (with-current-buffer buf
+ (with-current-buffer buf
+ (when (not (eq (not (null rawfile))
+ (not (null find-file-literally))))
(if (buffer-modified-p)
(if (y-or-n-p (if rawfile
"Save file and revisit literally? "
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Best regards, -- Vladimir.
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* Re: MULE bites
1999-02-16 15:27 MULE bites Kai.Grossjohann
1999-02-16 16:05 ` Vladimir Volovich
@ 1999-02-19 16:22 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 1999-02-19 16:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE writes:
> Okay, this is the first time I've been bitten by MULE (at least I
> presume that's where the error comes from). I nnoo'd a new backend,
> inheriting most of the stuff from nnmbox. I created a server for this
> backend. I added a message with a Latin-1 character. Now, when
> typing `g' in the group buffer, I get asked (two times, I've got two
> groups): Revisit file literally?
It's a bug somewhere in nnmbox, I think. Well, nnmbox probably fails
to grok some Mule stuff (like Vladimir said), and I have looked into
it some, but some fresh eyes would probably be very helpful. Could
you take a look at the problem as well?
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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