Re: Groups no longer active

[Tony Lam <Tony.Lam+ding@eng.sun.com>]

* "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

Lars> Tony Lam <Tony.Lam+ding@Eng.Sun.Com> writes:
>> This new behavior seems make sense, but I think when I do "M-g" on
>> topics it should still active all subscribed groups under the topics,
>> and fetch all news messages in the groups. I shouldn't have to do "M-g
>> 3" to activate *all* groups on level 3 and below just to read a few
>> groups in a topic.

Lars> Hm.  I've looked over the code, and I can't see anything there that
Lars> considers group levels.

When I start Gnus with 'M 2 M-x gnus', PGnus completely ignores all
groups at level >2 in gnus-get-unread-articles, i.e. does not store
them in active hash table, while in Gnus 5.6.45, the same function put
all groups in active hash table, and set groups at >2 to inactive. It
looks like that's why doing 'M-g' on topic later in PGnus doesn't get
any subscribed groups at level 2+ but works fine in Gnus 5.6.45.

There seems a reason for Gnus to change to the new behavior, but how
can I get all subscribed groups under a topic without activating all
groups from all servers?

Lars> Does `T #' only mark the groups that are on the specified level?

Yes.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Tony