From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1649 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Don Saklad Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Invalid function Date: 20 Dec 2002 16:42:04 -0500 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138668362 12204 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:46:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:46:02 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:29:29 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!dreaderd!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: nestle.ai.mit.edu Original-X-Trace: 1040420528 senator-bedfellow.mit.edu 3928 18.43.0.45 Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1789 Original-Lines: 37 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1789 Tue Jan 17 17:29:29 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1649 Archived-At: What might be tried next to get out of the predicament?... Trying to start up gnus when there's email pending, the incoming email went to /home/dsaklad/Mail/Incoming5565egA and appearing in the very bottom line of the emacs window is the following incomplete report Invalid function: (macro . #[(file &rest forms) "??!??!??!^X^Y^Z??^J^KD? ?B^HF???^H?^LBE??^JD^HD?^J?BB? D?BB?? D????^JDDD??^JD?BBE???^J?BBBB^H?^EFE?? D? DEEE+D\207" [temp-results temp-buffer temp-file file forms make-symbol "temp-file" "te Characters in the report that might not appear visibly here are series of question mark characters, exclamation points and control characters with the double quotation mark on the left of them and the double quotation mark on the right. There's also DEEE+Dbackslash207 just before the right double quotation mark. Here's the .emacs (menu-bar-mode -1) (display-time-mode 1) (column-number-mode 1) (put 'eval-expression 'disabled nil) (put 'downcase-region 'disabled nil) (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.mit.edu")) ; maybe fix this (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnml ""))) (setq nnmail-spool-file "/var/spool/mail/dsaklad") ;(load "rmail-spam-filter.el") (require 'rmail) ;(load "get-new-mail-for-spam-filter.el") It's Gnus v5.7