Re: Threading wrong if showing undownloaded articles

[kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann)]

Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com> writes:

> kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>
>> As you can see, the \--\ markers have moved right for the messages
>> that were selected for display.  Also, the threads aren't shown
>> correctly -- after doing J u on that group and reentering I see
>> proper thread trees.
>>
>> (The \--\ characters come from %B in gnus-summary-line-format.)
>
> There is so little agent code exposed via the summary that I can't see
> how the agent is the direct cause of this problem.

I believe that :-)

> Are you using gnus-agent-fetch-selected-article to download these
> articles?  If so, the summary code redrew the lines to change the -
> to + in column 1 and change the line's color.  It's possible that
> the summary didn't position the fields correctly in the updated
> line.

What I did was to exit the group with q, then did J u on that group
in the Group buffer, then I entered the group again.

> You might this test function.
> (defun test1 (article)
>   (gnus-summary-goto-subject article nil t)
>   (gnus-summary-update-article-line
>         article
> 	 (gnus-summary-article-header article)))
>
> The next time you notice that downloaded articles are misaligned, use
> this function to force specified articles to update without calling
> the agent.  In particular, try it on the article following the
> incorrectly displayed articles.

Okay.

(Not sure that there is an article followed the incorrectly displayed
ones: the `wrong' ones are the undownloaded ones, and usually the
undownloaded ones will be last.  Normally I do `g J s' to get new
news.  Only sometimes I too impatient and enter groups after `g'.)

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