From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joost Kremers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: customizing newsticker variables: problem displaying widget Date: 18 Nov 2009 14:07:38 GMT Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258556005 8682 80.91.229.12 (18 Nov 2009 14:53:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:53:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 18 15:53:18 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NAluI-0004Qw-8S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:53:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34429 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NAluH-0008GT-RF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:53:17 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Trace: individual.net Z8uVjnueRX0dOTB7/xR9lArodHk6EgkCiUURC5xEou/hphDR5w Cancel-Lock: sha1:xcC4HY2p4AJNuyWeZqzaKrZIaIM= User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1 (Linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:174805 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:69876 Archived-At: hi all, i'm trying to set up newsticker, but i'm running into a strange problem customizing some variables. when i do M-x customize-variable RET newstnewsticker-treeview-treewindow-width RET or M-x customize-variable RET newstnewsticker-treeview-listwindow-height RET the customization buffer shows the buttons "Set for current session", "Save for future settings", etc, but the variable itself is not shown. an error is displayed in the minibuffer, here copied from the *Messages* buffer: widget-apply: Symbol's function definition is void: nil if i go through M-x customize-group RET newsticker RET, and then select "Newsticker Reader" and then "Newsticker Treeview", the states of these variables are "HIDDEN", but if i click "Show", the entire item disappears and the same error is displayed. this is GNU Emacs 23.1.1, GTK+, with newsticker preinstalled. there's nothing weird in the defcustom definitions of both variables. the error also occurs when emacs is started with -Q. anyone have an idea what's wrong here? i manually added both variables to ~/.emacs.d/custom.el (which is where i keep my customisations) and they work fine. TIA -- Joost Kremers joostkremers@yahoo.com Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht EN:SiS(9)