From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: resend message: Wrong type argument: stringp, mail-user-name
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 10:04:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y4r4hqlb.fsf@thinkpad-t440p.tsdh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mw7natc7.fsf@hillenius.net>
Gijs Hillenius <gijs@hillenius.net> writes:
>> `name' is not provided according to your backtrace. So I guess you
>> have somewhere in your init file
>>
>> (setq user-full-name 'mail-user-name)
>>
>> whereas you probably wanted to write
>>
>> (setq user-full-name mail-user-name)
>>
>> That is, you accidentally set `user-full-name' to the symbol
>> mail-user-name instead to the value of that variable.
>
> I have it set as described in the manual:
>
> (setq user-full-name "Your Name")
>
> But, eh, I also use
>
> message-alternative-emails
>
> which the manual shows takes precedence over styles that ran off
> message-setup-hook. Perhaps that is what throws the spanner?
Hm, well, maybe. The problem is that some variable that's intended to
contain the user name as a string actually contains the symbol
mail-user-name. I've just grepped the emacs and gnus sources, and there
the symbol mail-user-name doesn't occur at all, so it's some local
customization of yours or maybe a third-party package that causes the
issue.
But you can use `apropos-value' to find variables that contain a value
whose print representation matches a given regex. So what does
M-x apropos-value RET ^mail-user-name$ RET
list?
Bye,
Tassilo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-21 9:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-18 11:18 Gijs Hillenius
2014-11-19 7:55 ` Tassilo Horn
[not found] ` <mailman.14000.1416383740.1147.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2014-11-19 19:22 ` Gijs Hillenius
2014-11-21 9:04 ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.14232.1416560704.1147.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2014-12-03 8:11 ` Fixed: " Gijs Hillenius
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