Re: What does gnus-browse-unsubscribe-current-group really do?

[David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com>]

"Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Wed, 11 May 2005, dave@boost-consulting.com wrote:
>
>> FWIW, this is in an nnimap group.
>
> Right, I tested with nnimap too.
>
>> It's happened with versions of Gnus from the CVS HEAD ever since I
>> started using Gnus a couple years ago, and likewise with builds of
>> Emacs from the CVS HEAD for the past couple years.
>> 
>> I use `^' from my *Group* buffer and then I put the point on my
>> nnimap server and hit return.  Then I use 'u' in the... wait.  Now
>> it's not happening anymore.  I do have two groups marked with 'K' in
>> the left-hand column (what does that mean?), but the rest are either
>> marked with 'U' or blank.
>> 
>> This is *really* confusing.
>
> A cursory reading of the function in gnus-srvr.el indicates that a K
> is normally not possible (only U and ' ' seem possible) but the code
> does kill the group (which could generate the K) before inserting the
> U or ' ' mark.
>
> K means "unknown to Gnus, only on the server"
> U means "Gnus knows about it, some state is saved, but it's
> unsubscibed (level 5 I think)"
> ' ' means "regular group (level 3 I think)"
>
> I don't think you have anything to worry about - this is hardly a
> dangerous bug, it seems.

I'm not sure it's a bug at all.  I just want to know what I'm getting.
Actually I was hoping that one of the states was "show this group but
don't check it for new messages."

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Dave Abrahams
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