Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!HPLB.HPL.HP.COM!ange From: ange@HPLB.HPL.HP.COM (Andy Norman) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Subject: Re: big hairy GNUS bug Message-ID: <8907100922.AA18404@otter.hpl.hp.com> Date: 10 Jul 89 09:21:38 GMT References: Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: Andy Norman Organization: The Internet Lines: 34 kim@kannel.lut.fi (Kimmo Suominen) writes: > In article wisner@mica.Berkeley.EDU (Bill Wisner) writes: > From: wisner@mica.Berkeley.EDU (Bill Wisner) > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus > Date: 4 Jul 89 19:57:23 GMT > Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU > Organization: Verrifast Plaine Co Ltd > Lines: 12 > In comp.sources.bugs, there was an article with this subject: > Subject: Bug in csh (history, "!a%100s"), Report and Fix. > In the status line of the *Subject* window, that appeared as: > Bug in csh (history, "!ano process > At least, that looks like a bug to me. > Bill Wisner wisner@mica.berkeley.edu ucbvax!mica!wisner > I'm not the NRA either. > I'm running GNUS 3.12 and didn't have any such problem. I'm also running GNUS 3.12 and had exactly the problem that Bill describes. My guess is that since the subject contains a '%100s' the buffer's process status is being displayed in the modeline by mistake. Perhaps each '%' in the subject should be quoted by doubling it before placing into the modeline? -- ange -- ange@hplb.hpl.hp.com