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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: unmarking in *Dead Summary* forgotten
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:25:26 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86iqqbd8ft.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ljv8jy72.fsf@jidanni.org>

On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:12:33 +0800 jidanni@jidanni.org wrote: 

RS> If it's supposed to be a "normal summary buffer", unmarking after
RS> waking up a dead summary buffer should work.

j> Many of the Dead Summary operations work as documented. Except the one
j> I reported in this thread.

I understand now, I have read the Gnus manual and never noticed this
feature.  I thought you were going to a summary buffer that was not
useful at all.  Sorry.

j> That is extra bad because the user already has learned to trust the
j> Dead Summary operations, as the others work. Only later, if he is
j> lucky, does he discover that his unmarking was thrown away.

Agreed.  But I know nothing about this code or the feature, so I hope
someone else is interested in fixing it.

Ted




      reply	other threads:[~2008-11-25 17:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-22 16:55 jidanni
2008-11-24 15:26 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-11-24 18:03   ` Reiner Steib
2008-11-25  3:12     ` jidanni
2008-11-25 17:25       ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]

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