Gnus Problems with latest Emacs Snapshot

Gnus Problems with latest Emacs Snapshot

[Damien Wyart]

Hello,

When running latest Gnus CVS with latest Emacs snapshot (packaged for
Debian Sid by Romain Francoise), I get two errors :

Invalid buffer type: if

after displaying the group buffer

and

Invalid size: gnus-carpal

after trying to enter a group. This makes Gnus unusable, so I had to
revert to the previous snapshot to post here.

Do other people with the same versions reproduce these problems ? Does
it seems to be Gnus problems (an incompatibilty introduced by Emacs), or
Emacs problems ? If there is a more appropriate place to report this,
suggestions will be welcome, but confirmation from other users would be
interesting.


Thanks,

-- 
DW

Re: Gnus Problems with latest Emacs Snapshot

[Gijs Hillenius]

On  7 Apr 2008, Damien Wyart wrote:

> Hello,
>
> When running latest Gnus CVS with latest Emacs snapshot (packaged for
> Debian Sid by Romain Francoise), I get two errors :
>
> Invalid buffer type: if
>
> after displaying the group buffer
>
> and
>
> Invalid size: gnus-carpal


See my post of yesterday and the reply from Katsumi Yamaoka.

I also had this error.  I find emacs-cvs could (..) also have caused
errors in x-face (does not work out of the box anymore). But that is
minor.




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Re: Gnus Problems with latest Emacs Snapshot

[Damien Wyart]

* Gijs Hillenius <gijs.hillenius@gmail.com> in gnu.emacs.gnus:
> See my post of yesterday and the reply from Katsumi Yamaoka.

Thanks, the fix suggested works for now.

-- 
DW

Re: Gnus Problems with latest Emacs Snapshot

[Katsumi Yamaoka]

>>>>> Gijs Hillenius wrote:

> I find emacs-cvs could (..) also have caused errors in x-face (does
> not work out of the box anymore). But that is minor.

It's due to this change in the Emacs trunk:

2008-04-05  Stefan Monnier  <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
[...]
	* gnus-fun.el (gnus-display-x-face-in-from): Remove unnecessary use of
	default-enable-multibyte-characters.

I think it is the right thing but it causes the `uncompface' function,
which `gnus-display-x-face-in-from' calls, to generate a multibyte
temp buffer and to break binary data that the external icontopbm
program generates.  I've fixed it in the Emacs trunk so as to make
that temp buffer unibyte as follows:

*** compface.el~	Tue Jan  8 21:51:25 2008
--- compface.el	Tue Apr  8 02:53:53 2008
***************
*** 33,38 ****
--- 33,39 ----
  GNU/Linux system these might be in packages with names like `compface'
  or `faces-xface' and `netpbm' or `libgr-progs', for instance."
    (with-temp-buffer
+     (unless (featurep 'xemacs) (set-buffer-multibyte nil))
      (insert face)
      (let ((coding-system-for-read 'raw-text)
  	  ;; At least "icontopbm" doesn't work with Windows because