Re: nnvirtual not working with September 0.51 / XEmacs 19.14b14

[Steve Baumgarten <sbb@panix.com>]

Steven L. Baur writes:

   Michael> First of all, fetching the article headers takes *forever*, usually
   Michael> (with more than 20 articles) on the order of several minutes.
   
   I've found this to be sort of an on-again off-again sort of thing.  A
   versions back nnvirtual was working as smoothly as it ever had.  Now
   it takes forever (>15 minutes) to load the nnvirtual group I have, no
   matter what the unread article counts are in the component groups.  I
   have successfully loaded nnvirtual groups of up to around 2000
   articles in the past.

I should have reported this some time ago, but I guess now is better
than never.  I, too, have had similar problems, with an nnvirtual
group that worked smoothly in Gnus 5.0.13 and I believe in earlier
versions of sgnus; now, however, I've had to delete it because of
incredibly lengthy "Checking new news..." times.  (The group in
question had about a half-dozen newsgroups in it; the underlying
groups had some ticked and/or cached articles and often have several
cross-postings.)

   Here is a list of what else doesn't appear to work:
   M-g is broken.  With previous behavior, one could read one of the
   nnvirtual component groups, then move the cursor to the nnvirtual
   group and hit M-g and the article count would be reduced by the number
   of articles read in the component group.  This is not true now.
   
Agreed.  I've seen exactly this behavior.

Sorry I wasn't able to track this down more precisely, or report it
sooner...

Steve Baumgarten
sbb@panix.com