Re: [Savannah-hackers] newsticker.el bug?

[Sylvain Beucler]

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On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 08:55:23AM +0100, stewart wrote:
> hi, 
> 
> i am using emacs on win xp, and i used to be able to use the
> newsticker without problems.  i have not used it for a while and when
> i tried to start it this morning i received several errors.
> 
> 
> 
> all i have in my .emacs file is:
> 
> ;;newsticker stuff
> (require 'newsticker)
> (setq newsticker-url-list-defaults '(("Ananova - News" 
> "http://bootleg-rss.g-blog.net/ananova_com.php?topic=news"; nil 3600))
>       newsticker-url-list '(("Ananova - Sport" 
> "http://bootleg-rss.g-blog.net/ananova_com.php?topic=sport"; nil 3600)
>                             ("BBC - World News" 
> "http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/world/rss091.xml"; nil 3600))
>       newsticker-scroll-smoothly nil
>       newsticker-display-interval 4)
> 
> and i try and run the newsticker by M-x newsticker-start
> when i do this my message buffer looks like this:
> 
> Newsticker started!
> Fontifying *Messages*... (regexps.............)
> error in process sentinel: byte-code: Wrong type argument: consp, nil
> error in process sentinel: Wrong type argument: consp, nil
> error in process sentinel: byte-code: Wrong type argument: consp, nil
> error in process sentinel: Wrong type argument: consp, nil
> error in process sentinel: byte-code: Wrong type argument: consp, nil
> error in process sentinel: Wrong type argument: consp, nil
> 
> i do not get the *newticker* buffer i used to do but i do get 3
> buffers (one for each site in my url list):
> 
>     *wget-newsticker-Ananova - News* 5892 Fundamental  
>     *wget-newsticker-Ananova - Sport* 5883 Fundamental  
>     *wget-newsticker-BBC - World News* 7542 Fundamental  
> 
> 
> 
> have you any idea what this might be??  i have tried the latest stable
> release of newsticker.el (1.5) and the cvs version and both give the
> same problem / error messages.
> 
> cheers, 
> stewart
> 
> 
> 
> emacs version:
> GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2004-08-27 on SBRY-NB
> 
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