* (gnus-group-list-all-matching) bug?
@ 2008-01-05 16:22 reader
2008-01-05 22:11 ` Dave Goldberg
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From: reader @ 2008-01-05 16:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
I've been using topic mode in gnus for a few mnths, after yrs of using
gnus in the normal or near default display mode.
One item that really works badly in topic mode is:
(gnus-group-list-all-matching) `A M'
When I run that command trying to discover some forgotten group I
suddenly want to look at, what happens in completely the opposite of
what you expect.
That is, not a single group is displayed.. instead the topics all
close up and all I see is a neat assembly of the topics.
My current search was:
(gnus-group-list-all-matching nil "web")
I know I have at least one group answering that description and I
thought maybe one or two more. But instead I get the behaviour
described above.
More crazy stuff happens too. When I start opening the topics I find
all kinds of long ago killed, zombieized[?sp], or unsubscribed
groups. All the flotsom that isn't supposed to be displayed and NONE of
it matches `web'.
Can that be due to local settings or does it constitute a genuine bug?
It might take a little doing to repeat the problem. You'd have to
setup topics and all unless some of you using `topics' can verify
this behavior.
All I have to do to see it is run the `A M' command from group buffer.
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* Re: (gnus-group-list-all-matching) bug?
2008-01-05 16:22 (gnus-group-list-all-matching) bug? reader
@ 2008-01-05 22:11 ` Dave Goldberg
2008-01-05 22:47 ` reader
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Dave Goldberg @ 2008-01-05 22:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
>>>>> On Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:22:49 -0600, reader@newsguy.com said:
> I've been using topic mode in gnus for a few mnths, after yrs of using
> gnus in the normal or near default display mode.
> One item that really works badly in topic mode is:
> (gnus-group-list-all-matching) `A M'
> When I run that command trying to discover some forgotten group I
> suddenly want to look at, what happens in completely the opposite of
> what you expect.
> That is, not a single group is displayed.. instead the topics all
> close up and all I see is a neat assembly of the topics.
I am unable to repeat this. When I enter a search to A M, I get any matching groups and their topics. All other topics are hidden, but that may be the result of my hiding empty topics as a preference.
> More crazy stuff happens too. When I start opening the topics I find
> all kinds of long ago killed, zombieized[?sp], or unsubscribed
> groups. All the flotsom that isn't supposed to be displayed and NONE of
> it matches `web'.
I'm not sure what to say about this, but I suspect that if you figure out the primary issue, this will either go away with it, or, as I suspect, will clarify itself to expected behavior. For example if I do A M and open one of the resulting displayed topics (which already shows matching groups), I get the rest of the groups. And that's what I would expect.
> Can that be due to local settings or does it constitute a genuine bug?
My guess is some oddball setting, but I can't imagine that a setting would break the search so you may be triggering a real bug with some setting that I don't have.
--
Dave Goldberg
david.goldberg6@verizon.net
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* Re: (gnus-group-list-all-matching) bug?
2008-01-05 22:11 ` Dave Goldberg
@ 2008-01-05 22:47 ` reader
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: reader @ 2008-01-05 22:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
Dave Goldberg <david.goldberg6@verizon.net> writes:
[...]
>
>> That is, not a single group is displayed.. instead the topics all
>> close up and all I see is a neat assembly of the topics.
>
> I am unable to repeat this. When I enter a search to A M, I get any
> matching groups and their topics. All other topics are hidden, but
> that may be the result of my hiding empty topics as a preference.
>
Well thats good news I guess.
Gack.. it just so happens that the first 3 groups I thought of that
weren't visible had actually been killed. Maybe quite some time
ago... maybe even on a different machine.
I should have tried a few that were actually visible already to make
sure.
I tried `web' (I once had 2 of those)
I tried `ford' (I had two ford truck groups once upon a time)
I tried `kde' (Had 3 of those...)
I just knew I still had some of those.
When I saw your post, tried the obvious thing (groups I could see) and
it worked just like it should.
I'm not sure what brought up all the goofy stuff. I don't see it now
but then I went through it when it came up and killed it all off.
There is one thing there I notice and I guess you say its probably
normal.
After running `A M' if you open a topic with no hits displayed it
rolls out all the groups under there. In my case I hit the nnml topic
and rolled out literally 150+ groups. Many have not seen the light of
day for years. (but none were killed or zombied at least)
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