From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/15819 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: does anyone have a workaround for the "Hiding the thread moved us backwards, aborting!" bug yet? Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 08:31:00 -0700 Organization: Stonehenge Consulting Services; Portland, Oregon, USA Message-ID: <86a9wgah8r.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> References: <86y5k4cxxm.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1348415108 9720 80.91.229.3 (23 Sep 2012 15:45:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 15:45:08 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 23 17:45:13 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TFoMp-0007AR-8R for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2012 17:45:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51320 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TFoMk-0003l4-Gj for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2012 11:45:06 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!news2.euro.net!news.mixmin.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!feed.cnntp.org!news.cnntp.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus x-mayan-date: Long count = 12.19.19.13.11; tzolkin = 6 Chuen; haab = 14 Chen User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:mZ5HXtBciM4R4+zFg0yhPyTkBk8= Original-Lines: 37 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 32ebd4da.read.cnntp.org Original-X-Trace: DXC=IIo4@I[=GjX69loJ@HXaH^WoT\PAgXa?Qh69EQAaHL6^KD5N8FP4c=[\; JR> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:15819 Archived-At: >>>>> "Sivaram" == Sivaram Neelakantan writes: Sivaram> On Fri, Sep 21 2012,Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >> it's driving me crazy. :( Sivaram> We're on a Gnus mailing list, which by definition is where the crazies Sivaram> congregate (Have you seen normal email clients/MUAs, recently?). You're not Sivaram> out of the ordinary, here. :-) Sivaram> And no, I have no idea of the bug or the resolution. Sivaram> sivaram Sivaram> -- repeat by: (setq gnus-build-sparse-threads 'more gnus-thread-hide-subtree t ) (which is my preferred view) kill a (folded) thread ahead of a thread that is missing a base article, so it's sparse. your cursor will end up at the far right, instead of on the left. now kill *that* thread. BOOM, you get shoved to the end of the buffer and the error message above. Before, you'd just get shoved into some weird buffer state that a ^A would fix. But at least you wouldn't lose context. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion