From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/3577 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Cor Gest Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: error after reading init file with r Date: 04 Mar 2004 08:51:47 +0000 Organization: Clsnet Linux Systems Message-ID: <874qt50zbw.fsf@cleopatra.clsnet.nl> References: <87ptbtkp6p.fsf@rechner1.ddorf.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138669643 19469 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:07:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:07:23 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:32:25 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!transit.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Original-Sender: cor@cleopatra.clsnet.nl Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus X-GPG-ID: pub 1024/65AF7A91 cor@clsnet.nl X-GPG-KEY: http://pki.surfnet.nl X-Favorite-Beer: Pint of Kilkenny X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 04 Mar 2004 09:51:49 CET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.84.183.106 Original-X-Trace: 1078390309 news.xs4all.nl 560 [::ffff:213.84.183.106]:2777 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:3718 Original-Lines: 34 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 3718 Tue Jan 17 17:32:25 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:3577 Archived-At: Some hopefully ableminded and witty human entity disguising itself as: Fabian Braennstroem wrote : > Hello, > > I get an error-message when I read the init file again. It says: > > Error in ~/.gnus: stringp > > What does that mean? I get the same message after closing Gnus and starting it > in the same Emacs-session. So right now, I have to start Emacs again. Well, it could be a lot, but mainly this means that there is some syntactical error in your .emacs. a nice way which uses the elisp power in debugging is: rename .emacs to .emacs.el now automatically cl-mode is invoked vs text-mode. visit the file .emacs.el C-x evaluate buffer read the comments in the the message-buffer and act according to the mentioned errors. emacs is rather smart in making one feel dumb. ;-) cor -- Artificial intelligence has no cure for human stupidity (setq reply-to (concatenate 'string "Cor Gest " "")) (defvar wannabe "s0 u w4Nn4b3 4 h4x0r") http://www.clsnet.nl/tuxoharata.html No, I will NOT fix your Computer http://www.geekgrrrl.nl