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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Unpleasant catch 22
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 21:32:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h7rng5fv.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pn6bg6fk.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

[...]

> So far as I can tell, calling `gnus-no-server' skips the initial
> connection to `gnus-start-news-server' (which only starts
> `gnus-select-method'), but then later on connects to it anyway, during
> `gnus-get-unread-articles'.

You probably figured this out, but this should have said "skips initial
connection to `gnus-select-method'".

> Of course, for that matter, if you know what the lowest level is of
> all the groups belonging to that server, you could just call `gnus'
> with a numeric prefix arg of that level or lower

Only lower! Not that level.



  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-24  4:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-23 23:03 Harry
2020-09-23 23:10 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-09-24  0:36   ` Harry
2020-09-24  1:01     ` 黃炳熙
2020-09-24  4:11     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-09-24  4:32       ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2020-09-24 21:27       ` Harry Putnam
2020-09-25  1:26         ` Eric Abrahamsen

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