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From: Luis Henriques <henrix@camandro.org>
To: dick.r.chiang@gmail.com
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Annoying issue with group not showing new messages
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2021 17:38:28 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210221173828.GA86830@camandro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pn0wkyqk.fsf@dick>

On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 07:50:43AM -0500, dick.r.chiang@gmail.com wrote:
> One cannot practically use gnus without stepping through functions.  This is
> why mu4e has effectively halted new gnus adoption.
> 
> Send yourself a mail to a good inbox.  `C-u C-M-x` on
> `nnimap-request-group-scan`.  Then `M-g` on the group, and SPC step to see how
> it's supposed to look.
> 
> Now do the same for the problematic inbox.  Inspect variables and function
> calls with `e variable-or-function-call RET`.
> 
> `C-M-x` on `nnimap-request-group-scan` to turn off debugging.
> 
> This general strategy holds you in good stead for your entire
> emacs lifetime.  Google around for more (onerously longwinded) info.

Thank you for your suggestion.  Unfortunately, I tried that... and gave
up.  I'm not (e)lisp literate so debugging such complex code isn't
something I'm ready to do.  And no, I'm not moving to mu4e :-)

Cheers,
--
Luis




  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-21 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-19 12:06 Luis Henriques
2021-02-19 12:50 ` dick.r.chiang
2021-02-21 17:38   ` Luis Henriques [this message]
2021-02-21 17:59     ` dick.r.chiang
2021-02-21 20:41       ` Bob Newell
2021-02-21 22:29     ` Eric Abrahamsen

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