From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/60306 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: What does gnus-browse-unsubscribe-current-group really do? Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 18:13:49 -0400 Message-ID: <7ji26ag2.fsf@boost-consulting.com> References: <4278DD16.5070608@boost-consulting.com> <4n4qd9zseo.fsf@lifelogs.com> <4nekccjxeu.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1116022334 26685 80.91.229.2 (13 May 2005 22:12:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 22:12:14 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M8834@lists.math.uh.edu Sat May 14 00:12:12 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DWiNc-0001OL-Br for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 14 May 2005 00:11:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1DWiQk-0001FM-00; Fri, 13 May 2005 17:14:51 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1DWiQd-0001FG-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 13 May 2005 17:14:43 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1DWiQW-0008V5-QH for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 13 May 2005 17:14:37 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1DWiQV-0002Ir-00 for ; Sat, 14 May 2005 00:14:35 +0200 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DWiIG-0000ne-57 for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 14 May 2005 00:06:04 +0200 Original-Received: from 146-115-127-135.c3-0.smr-ubr2.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com ([146.115.127.135]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 14 May 2005 00:06:04 +0200 Original-Received: from dave by 146-115-127-135.c3-0.smr-ubr2.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 14 May 2005 00:06:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 41 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 146-115-127-135.c3-0.smr-ubr2.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.13 (Rational FORTRAN, windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:qZZmxqPlPExpq8GETMBNs6J/w3Q= X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60306 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60306 "Ted Zlatanov" 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." -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com