change to `concat' breaks start-itimer [Was: Problems with gnus and beta40?]
SL Baur wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> after applying the b40-patch without any problems, I encounter now problems
> with gnus. I've changed absolutly nothing in my settings, got the
> new version of the xemacs-base-package as recommended, but gnus
> complains:
> Signaling: (error "Error in ~/.gnus: (wrong-type-argument sequencep
> 2)")
The problem is in your .gnus file. Check it carefully for usage of
`concat' and an integer.
No, I had a similar problem due to the use of start-itimer by
lazy-shot.
I think that the following patch should fix it.
--
Glynn Clements <glynn(a)sensei.co.uk>
1998-05-17 Glynn Clements <glynn(a)sensei.co.uk>
* lisp/itimer.el (start-itimer): replace the use of `concat' with
`format'
--- itimer.el.orig Sun May 17 01:37:20 1998
+++ itimer.el Sun May 17 01:37:33 1998
＠＠ -357,7 +357,7 ＠＠
(let ((oname name)
(num 2))
(while (get-itimer name)
- (setq name (concat oname "<" num ">"))
+ (setq name (format "%s<%d>" oname num))
(itimer-increment num)))
(activate-itimer (list name value restart function is-idle
with-args function-arguments (list 0 0 0)))