Re: Outstanding bugs?

[dc@panix.com]

Suppose my unix shell session dies when I'm in Gnus, and
does so after having done enough stuff for long enough in Gnus such 
that there's an auto save .newsrc*whatever that's more
current than the official .newsrc*whateve files.

The next time I launch Gnus I may see a prompt like:

	 Auto save file is newer; use it y/n ?

If I see this in the newsgroups buffer I can actually
select the autosave file, and typically the autosave file
is current up to the second to last group I read.

However, sometimes I see after leaving the newsgroups buffer
and before entering the summary buffer a message:

	Auto save file is newer; consider M-x recover-file

and there is no way to back out and M-x recover-file short of
opening another shell and killing Gnus.

So the bug is that an option (M-x recover-file)
is presented which is unselectable as and where 
it's presented.  (in between newsgroups and summary buffer).

How to recreate the bug:

Do s for save in newsgroups buffer.

In the newsgroups buffer,
select  a group and many articles from that group[1]
eg select 50,000 articles from control, and have a
killfile (not scorefile) that kills on a low priority
header, eg keyword.

This should take a few hours and gives the autosave timer a good
chance to save something and gives the modem a good chance to 
drop the line.

After the session is lost, open a new session, and select the
group that you selected in [1], and choose many articles.


David W. Crawford <dc@panix.com>



> If you're seeing any bugs that you haven't reported -- please do so
> now.  Even if it's just a teensy-weensy little thing that you imagine
> everybody has seen and decided to live with, report it anyway. 
> 
> I'll do a few more nineties releases, and then it's Gnus 5.2 time. 
> 
> -- 
>   "Yes.  The journey through the human heart 
>      would have to wait until some other time."
>