Re: gnus 20110821 will CoRrUpT your .newsrc.eld, you have been XwarnedX burned
jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
> Use emacs-snapshot 1:20110821-1 and you won't be able to start gnus, as
> your .newsrc.eld got corrupted last session.
> Here's what wdiff(1) and uni2ascii(1) say now gets plastered into our
> .newsrc.eld files starting with emacs-snapshot 1:20110821-1
> {+(if (gnus-lrm-string-p gnus-tmp-qualified-group) (concat+}
> ======================================================================
> {+#
> ("0x200E" 0 1 (invisible t))) (gnus-correct-substring gnus-tmp-qualified-group 0 61))+}
I believe you can manually replace all the
#("XXX" 0 1 (invisible t))
with
""
to fix it. Where XXX is the binary 0x200E.
Why this happened is that you used Gnus compiled with Emacs that
provided the function `string-mark-left-to-rigth'. But it's been
renamed into `bidi-string-mark-left-to-rigth' in 2011-08-18, and
newly compiled Gnus will never use it. I don't know what it is
for, so I have no idea to settle this problem appropriately.
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