Re: gnus-group-change-level

[James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>]

>>>>> "EA" == Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

EA> Oh wow, I've never seen anyone do this before. How long has this setup
EA> been functioning?

A couple of decades.

EA> Is your current issue with changing the level of this
EA> group something that's come up recently, and only for this group?

I never tried to call gnus-group-change-level directly before, only S L
in the *Groups* buffer, and that as I wrote works fine.

I'm only attempting this because after my previous workstation's
mainboard failed, I ended up using a different imapd on an existing
headless node here.  And so the group names have a different hostname.

I want to get the levels back to how I had them on the previous setup,
but w/o manually calling SL thousands of times.  Or even just hundreds.
(I used to split some large lists very narrowly; that led to *lots* of
groups.  I've chosen not to split them that narrowly this time.)

EA> can you show me the group parameters for this group?

These are the params for nnimap+oxygen:ding@gnus.org:

((modseq . "51")
 (uidvalidity . "1689374630")
 (active 1 . 24)
 (timestamp . 1708309971)
 (permanent-flags %Answered %Flagged %Deleted %Seen %Draft %*))

It is at level 11.

EA> Was oldlevel not set in earlier tests?

I used awk to convert a list of '{level} {name}' to a list of

(gnus-group-change-level "nnimap+oxygen:{name}" {level})

where everything outside of {} is static, of course.

EA> if you put point where you've had
EA> it in trying to set the level so far, and run M-:
EA> (gnus-group-group-level), what do you get?

that works.

EA> In current Emacs master, the level should be changed on line 1327:

EA> (setcar (cdadr entry) level)

EA> Do you not reach that line?

I saw that line, but do not recall what edebug showed in the non-working
attempts.

I'll have to re-test.  I had to restart gnus in the interim.  I'll do
that later tonight.

-JimC
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