From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/28281 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Katsumi Yamaoka Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Where does gnus-truncate-string come from? Date: 17 Dec 1999 04:37:05 -0500 (EST) Organization: Emacsen advocacy group Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <861z8o9r4u.fsf@klio.math.uni-giessen.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by WEMIKO 1.13.9 - "Euglena tripteris") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035165158 29076 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:52:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:52:38 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF097D051F for ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 04:38:20 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id DAB10774; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 03:37:57 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 17 Dec 1999 03:37:46 -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 DAA15042 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 03:37:34 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from jpl.org (mars.web-hosting.com [209.40.104.5]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B6D0D051F for ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 04:37:08 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from yamaoka@localhost) by jpl.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id EAA18278; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 04:37:00 -0500 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Wanted: Free NNTP servers for news posting. User-Agent: T-gnus/6.14.0 (based on Gnus v5.8.3) (revision 12) WEMIKO/1.13.9 (Euglena tripteris) SLIM/1.13.5 (=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOzNAJSReJF8bKEI=?=) MULE XEmacs/21.2 (beta24) (Hecate) (sparc-sun-solaris2.6) X-Face: #kKnN,xUnmKia.'[pp`;Omh}odZK)?7wQSl"4o04=EixTF+V[""w~iNbM9ZL+.b*_CxUmFk B#Fu[*?MZZH@IkN:!"\w%I_zt>[$nm7nQosZ<3eu;B:$Q_:p!',P.c0-_Cy[dz4oIpw0ESA^D*1Lw= L&i*6&( Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28281 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28281 >>>>> In <861z8o9r4u.fsf@klio.math.uni-giessen.de> >>>>> Nils Ackermann wrote: Nils> X-Mailer: Semi-gnus 6.8.18 (based on Gnus 5.6.43; for SEMI 1.8, Nils> Gnus 5.8.2 Nils> Emacs 20.3.1 Nils> Upon entering most groups I get an error with the following Nils> backtrace (where the argument to gnus-summary-prepare-threads is Nils> cout out here): Nils> Signaling: (void-function gnus-truncate-string) It seems a wreck of Semi-gnus in your .newsrc.eld file. Please try M-x remove-semi-gnus-stuff-from-quick-startup-file and then restart Emacs and Gnus 5.8. Where the function definition is below: (defvar gnus-startup-file "~/.newsrc") (defun remove-semi-gnus-stuff-from-quick-startup-file () (interactive) (let ((eld (concat gnus-startup-file ".eld")) (backup (concat gnus-startup-file ".eld.backup"))) (or (file-exists-p backup) (copy-file eld backup)) (with-temp-buffer (let ((coding-system-for-read 'binary) (coding-system-for-write 'binary)) (insert-file-contents eld) (if (search-forward "(setq gnus-format-specs" nil t) (progn (delete-region (goto-char (match-beginning 0)) (progn (forward-list) (point))) (write-region (point-min) (point-max) eld))))))) -- Katsumi Yamaoka