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bug#18198: Gnus fails to read ~/.newsrc with group names which are not s
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#18198: Gnus fails to read ~/.newsrc with group names which are not symbols |
Date: |
Fri, 13 Feb 2015 19:43:38 +1100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net> writes:
> I believe that the problem is at the following point.
>
> 2556 (narrow-to-region
> 2557 (point)
> 2558 (progn (skip-chars-forward "^ \t!:\n") (point)))
> 2559 (goto-char (point-min))
> 2560 (setq symbol
> 2561 (and (/= (point-min) (point-max))
> 2562 (let ((obarray gnus-active-hashtb)) (read
> buf))))
> 2563 (widen)
>
> Here, the “group” field of .newsrc is read as an Emacs Lisp
> expression. Which may result either in an error, or, in the
> case of [Hello]/World – and, similarly, (Hello)/World – in only
> the leading [Hello] or (Hello) being actually read.
Well, "[Hello]/World" isn't a valid newsgroup name, and I think only
newsgroups are supposed to be in ~/.newsrc? How did you get such a
group name there?
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- bug#18198: Gnus fails to read ~/.newsrc with group names which are not symbols,
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