Re: miscellaneous Gnus questions

[Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>]

> This is definitely a function that has survived unscathed from GNUS
> 4.1:
> 
> (defun gnus-subscribe-hierarchically (newgroup)
>   ...)
> 
> Uhm.  What does it do?

Apparently it finds a newsgroup in .newsrc with as many components as
possible matching the initial components of NEWSGROUP.  If there are
several groups with equally many initial components, NEWSGROUP is
inserted before the first group which sorts after NEWSGROUP.  I think.
Except that if that's what it's supposed to do, it doesn't work because
it doesn't require the final component to be followed by ".", "!" or ":"
in .newsrc.  I think.  I think it should be searching for something like
this instead (unchecked).  I think.
  
  (concat "^\\(" (regexp-quote groupkey) "\\(\\.[^ \n\r\t]*\\)?\\)[!:]")


No, I don't really think.   It's too late.  G'night.

Regards,

Hallvard