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bug#18198: Gnus fails to read ~/.newsrc with group names which are not s
From: |
Ivan Shmakov |
Subject: |
bug#18198: Gnus fails to read ~/.newsrc with group names which are not symbols |
Date: |
Sat, 14 Feb 2015 08:05:50 +0000 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) |
>>>>> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>>>>> Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net> writes:
[…]
>> 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,
Yet (Hello)/World is. (Per the newsgroup-name and wildmat-exact
productions given in section 9.8 of RFC 3977.)
> and I think only newsgroups are supposed to be in ~/.newsrc? How did
> you get such a group name there?
I didn’t. The person who brought this issue to IRC has
apparently used something like (nnimap "imap.gmail.com") for
gnus-select-method.
Though indeed, I know of no reason /not/ to set
gnus-save-newsrc-file to nil in this case.
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