From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/18816 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Loris Bennett" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: gnus-topic-update-topic-line: Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2018 12:37:11 +0100 Message-ID: <877eqknouw.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: <87y3j1ht21.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <87k1uk6ysn.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <86lgf02pa6.fsf@zoho.com> 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 1520681727 17412 195.159.176.226 (10 Mar 2018 11:35:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2018 11:35:27 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 10 12:35:23 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 1eucmY-0004QN-Sd for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Mar 2018 12:35:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50330 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eucob-0007xO-Q5 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Mar 2018 06:37:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53161) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eucoW-0007x6-5s for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Mar 2018 06:37:25 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eucoT-0002rW-0B for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Mar 2018 06:37:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=52025 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eucoS-0002qp-Nv for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Mar 2018 06:37:20 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eucmN-0004EL-Af for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Mar 2018 12:35:11 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 70 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:Vt9FiHugHLXxch3U/o9GuyxMaMw= 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:18816 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > Loris Bennett wrote: > >> Here the backtrace when I start Gnus and then >> try to toggle topics [...] >> >> My assumption is that something happened to >> .newsrc and/or .newsrc.eld and that has >> occurred. Is there someway to discard all the >> topic information and start afresh? > > Well, which one do you use? Well I have both. In .newsrc there are just the following two lines: gnu.emacs.gnus: 1-89003 gnu.emacs.help: 1-228165 In .newsrc.eld there is (setq gnus-topic-alist ...) so maybe I could just bin that. > In .newsrc.eld it says > > ;; Never delete this file -- if you want to force Gnus to read the > ;; .newsrc file (if you have one), touch .newsrc instead. > > But that's almost never a good idea. If you > solve the problem by deleting files that have > been populated automatically, what will happen > is what once produced the bug will just do > so again! > > Rather, what hits do you get when you search > all your Emacs init files for "topic"? My init.el just contains (add-hook 'gnus-group-mode-hook 'gnus-topic-mode) as it has for many a moon. I have fiddled around a bit I can now get topics to show without the 'wrong type argument' error. However, the topics are behaving strangely. If I try to unindent the topic 'FU that is displayed as indented, i.e. as a subtopic, I get the error Nothing to indent Drafts into where 'Drafts' is the topic under which 'FU' currently and incorrectly appears (the amount of indentation makes 'FU' actually look like a subsubtopic of 'Drafts'). Other topics exist, but I can only see them if I explicitly do a 'jump to topic'. If I then fold the parent topics and then try to unfold them, I get a 'no group on current line' at some point. So basically the whole hierarchical structure of the topics seems borked, so I would really like to throw it away and start anew, as I only have around a dozen topic. Cheers, Loris -- This signature is currently under construction.