removing download mark bug?

removing download mark bug?

[Robert Epprecht]

CVS Gnus from a few minutes ago:

I press <ENTER> on an article that is not downloaded yet.
Gnus sets the download mark '%'. Now I change my mind and
(being a bit tired) pressed 'M ' ('M' <SPACE>) instead of '@'.
Gnus was so kind to forgive my error and removed the download mark.
But leaving the group and reentering I find the '%' back again...

This looks like a tiny bug to me. (I would not mind if Gnus would
not remove the download mark on 'M ', but if it does, it should not
reappear IMHO).

Robert Epprecht

Re: removing download mark bug?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Robert Epprecht <epprecht@solnet.ch> writes:

> I press <ENTER> on an article that is not downloaded yet.
> Gnus sets the download mark '%'. Now I change my mind and
> (being a bit tired) pressed 'M ' ('M' <SPACE>) instead of '@'.
> Gnus was so kind to forgive my error and removed the download mark.
> But leaving the group and reentering I find the '%' back again...

You have the same general problem with all the marking commands -- if
you `d' something that has the "%" mark, it'll say just "r".  And if
you tick an article and then `@' it, it'll say just "%".

It's a problem with having the download mark share the character
position with the readedness marks.

The question is then whether to special-case `M-c' -- make it "reveal"
the download mark instead of the unreadedness mark (which is SPC).

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