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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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