No gnus connection with emacs-27

[Colin Baxter]

Hello,

I can connect to my news groups using emacs-26.3, no problem, but not
with emacs-27 (or emacs-28). Has something changed?

The relevant (I think!) portion of my ~/.gnus.el is

(setq gnus-select-method
'(nntp "news.gmane.io"))

Emacs-26.3 accepts this, but emacs-27 gives the error:

Opening nntp server on news...failed: >>> (error news/nntp No address
associated with hostname)

Best wishes,

Colin

Colin Baxter
URL: http://www.Colin-Baxter.com

[Colin Baxter]

Colin> Hello, I can connect to my news groups using emacs-26.3, no
Colin> problem, but not with emacs-27 (or emacs-28). Has something
Colin> changed?

Colin> The relevant (I think!) portion of my ~/.gnus.el is

Colin> (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.gmane.io"))

Colin> Emacs-26.3 accepts this, but emacs-27 gives the error:

Colin> Opening nntp server on news...failed: >>> (error news/nntp No
Colin> address associated with hostname)

I was launching emacs-27 via the "-q" option and then loading settings
via an elisp config file (don't ask me why!). It seems that emacs-27 had
no way of knowing it had to use ~/.gnus.el when receiving a M-x gnus <RET>
instruction. The solution is therefore to either

M-x load-library <RET> ~/.gnus.el <RET>

prior to launching gnus, or to put

(load-library "~/.gnus.el")

in the original elisp config file.

I hadn't realised before that the "-q" switch is such a killer!

Best wishes,

Colin Baxter
URL: http://www.Colin-Baxter.com
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