From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/18812 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: gnus-topic-update-topic-line: Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2018 22:49:27 +0100 Message-ID: <86y3j03ons.fsf@zoho.com> References: <87y3j1ht21.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1520632608 15086 195.159.176.226 (9 Mar 2018 21:56:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 21:56:48 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 09 22:56:44 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1euQ0J-0003p1-Pk for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 22:56:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48285 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1euQ2M-00006F-JA for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 16:58:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36396) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1euPtZ-00014u-D6 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 16:49:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1euPtU-0001gI-Il for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 16:49:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=41621 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1euPtU-0001fy-Ao for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 16:49:40 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1euPrO-0001uc-CZ for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 22:47:30 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:C2u6xSIPG9PgFRJpSAl8y3qyjjY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:18812 Archived-At: Loris Bennett wrote: > Does any one know what could be causing this > error: > > gnus-topic-update-topic-line: Wrong type > argument: number-or-marker-p, > nil I don't have that as a function but it means it expects an argument that is accepted by the `number-or-marker-p' test, and now what it gets is nil which doesn't pass. This most often doesn't happen because some complete lamer is sending it nil and expect it to work, but rather some symbol is passed that most often makes sense, only right now it isn't set, or set incorrectly/unexpectedly to nil. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573