GNU bug report logs - #18198
Gnus fails to read ~/.newsrc with group names which are not symbols

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Packages: emacs, gnus;

Reported by: Ivan Shmakov <ivan <at> siamics.net>

Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 10:09:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed, patch

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: 18198 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18198: Gnus fails to read ~/.newsrc with group names which are not symbols
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 15:42:16 +1100

Ivan Shmakov <ivan <at> siamics.net> writes:

> 	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.

There should only be newsgroups in the .newsrc file -- it's for
interoperability with other newsreaders, and putting non-newsgroups in
there makes no sense.  So that does sound like a bug.

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