Attempting to view (gnus-article-press-button) the diff patch, I got the following backtrace. Is this solved by fixing the parens as per this Changelog entry? 1999-07-08 08:41:10 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen * mailcap.el (mailcap-mime-extensions): Changed patch to text/x-patch. * mm-decode.el (mm-display-external): Wrong placement of paren.