[comp.emacs] Problems with gnus & gdb together under emacs

wjc@ho5cad.ATT.COM (Bill Carpenter) (02/02/90)

On 30 Jan 90 18:47:16 GMT, brennan@rtp.dg.com (Dave Brennan) said:

brennan> I'm having problems with gnus if I try to use it and gdb in
brennan> emacs at the same time.  When trying to retrieve an article,
brennan> the error message "Wrong type argument: markerp, nil" appears
brennan> in the message area, and no article is retrieved.  I tried to

The mystical answer is that there is a conflict when more than one
package is using something called "overlay-arrow-position".  I don't
know the innards well enough to know if there is a real, true-life
fix, but you can do what I do whenever I get this problem from GNUS
(there is a similar conflict with the VM mail reader).

       M-x kill-buffer *Article*

When you then try to fetch an article, the "*Article*" buffer will be
regenerated by GNUS.  I have used this enough times that it is almost
muscle memory, and it hasn't goofed anything up yet.
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