Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > Richmond <[email protected]> writes: > >> Eric Abrahamsen <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> Richmond <[email protected]> writes: >>> >>>> Due to my computer dying I lost some changes. One of which was to stop >>>> subscribing to new groups. But even though I reapplied this change, I >>>> was unable to launch gnus because of this error. I cannot find any >>>> reference in the lisp to this function gnus-kill-newsgroup but something >>>> is calling it and then failing. I got gnus working in the end by >>>> removing the mozilla server from .gnus. >>>> >>>> There was a reference in to this function in .gnu-emacs but I renamed >>>> this file to dotgnu-emacs but still the error occured. Can functions get >>>> copied around? >>> `gnus-kill-newsgroup' was removed from Gnus (or at least this Gnus >>> change was merged into Emacs master) in 2012, so it's been a while. >> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux) > That's a pretty old Emacs -- is there a chance you could upgrade to 26? > 27 is almost out. Probably but I am not sure I want to just yet. On the last system which is now dead I did upgrade but it caused various other problems.
> >>> What version of Emacs are you using? You're not still loading an >>> external Gnus installation, are you? >>> >> No. I had to re-install linux etc. So starting from scratch. >> >>> You talk about changes, and "reapplying changes", what does that mean? >> Some time ago, maybe a couple of months, I asked in this group why gnus >> was subscribing to groups and as a result of that I made changes to >> .gnus and got rid of .gnu-emacs-custom >>> What seems most likely is that you've got some custom functions in >>> your.gnus.el or elsewhere that are still calling `gnus-kill-newsgroup'. >>> >> The problem is I cannot find any reference to it. >> >> I do this: >> >> find . -type f -print|xargs grep -i gnus-kill-newsgroup >> >> All it finds is this: >> >> ./dotgnu-emacs: (gnus-kill-newsgroup newsgroup))) > So presumably this file is getting loaded somehow? I don't see that > that's a standard filename of any sort. If you look at that file, what > is that code a part of? I don't think it is getting loaded, although it might be. But it was the file which was called .gnu-emacs which I renamed to dotgnu-emacs so that it wouldn't get used. (dot = . ) _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
