From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: Bob Newell <bobnewell@bobnewell.net>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: 'g' on Topic line in group buffer gives error
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2019 02:22:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d0h2omjr.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k1bb5y3e.fsf@bobnewell.net> (Bob Newell's message of "Sat, 17 Aug 2019 10:35:49 -1000")
Bob Newell <bobnewell@bobnewell.net> writes:
> Ah, I should have thought of the error trace, and it turns out this *is*
> my convoluted setup.
>
> I had added :after advice to 'gnus-summary-update-info. The noble
> purpose of this was to mark everything as read in RSS and similar groups
> to expedite expiration, and for my inbox, to count unread messages and
> store the count to work in conjunction with my versions of biffer and
> biff barks.
Well I don't really understand what any of that means, but I'm glad you
found the source of the problem :)
> But I should know by now that advising functions can have unintended
> consequences. Normally I find them and fix them but this one eluded
> me--- until now.
>
> Perhaps it's feeble but I offer the excuse that gnus is --- ahem --- a
> bit complex. I've always been able to get it to do everything I want,
> and at the same time a number of things that I don't want.
Is there anything in here where you think Gnus could make your life easier?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-18 9:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-17 5:05 Bob Newell
2019-08-17 13:27 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-08-17 20:35 ` Bob Newell
2019-08-18 9:22 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
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