Synch with Oort Gnus.

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index db16840..3fd93f2 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2001-02-20 16:00:00  ShengHuo ZHU  <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>
+
+       * gnus-start.el (gnus-setup-news): Allow gnus-group-line-format to be
+       something special.
+
 2001-02-20 00:00:00  ShengHuo ZHU  <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>
 
        * nnweb.el (nnweb-request-group): Set nnweb-group anyway.

diff --git a/lisp/gnus-start.el b/lisp/gnus-start.el
index dc5be9f..c4640ba 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/gnus-start.el
+++ b/lisp/gnus-start.el
@@ -939,6 +939,7 @@ If LEVEL is non-nil, the news will be set up at level LEVEL."
 
     ;; See whether we need to read the description file.
     (when (and (boundp 'gnus-group-line-format)
+              (stringp gnus-group-line-format)
               (let ((case-fold-search nil))
                 (string-match "%[-,0-9]*D" gnus-group-line-format))
               (not gnus-description-hashtb)