Richmond <dnomh...@gmx.com> writes: > Eric Abrahamsen <e...@ericabrahamsen.net> writes: > >> Richmond <dnomh...@gmx.com> 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. >> >> 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? _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english