Re: Freeze with Emacs 21.1 and CVS Gnus

[Hannu Koivisto]

abraham@dina.kvl.dk (Per Abrahamsen) writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
> 
>> On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Per Abrahamsen wrote:
>>
>>> Using Emacs 21.1 and CVS Gnus, I get an uninteruptable infinite loop
>>> whenever selecting an article from the summary buffer with a subject
>>> that ends with a percent sign.
>>
>> From the backtrace (see below), my wild guess is that Gnus tries to 
>> display the article name in the mode line, and since the name includes a 
>> percent character, it tries to interpret that as a special mode-line 
>> element.
> 
> It includes two percent characters.  Here is the value used:

FWIW, this problem and the one I reported may happen for the same
reason.  The article that caused never-ending redisplay_windows
loop for me also had a subject that ended to two percent
characters.

-- 
Hannu