Re: gnus-group-suspend forgets "readedness" of newly read articles

[Dmitry Yaitskov <dimas@home.com>]

Karl Kleinpaste <karl@charcoal.com> writes:

> This is not specific to gnus-group-suspend.  Any time that you are in
> *Group* and select a group, you get a *Summary* based on what is known
> at the time in the *Group* buffer.  The reason is that updates to
> *Group* are made on exit from *Summary*.  If you do not exit *Summary*
> in a way which allows Gnus to carry out normal updates, Gnus will
> simply start over again when you re-select the same group.
> 
> This is not a bug.  Perhaps it needs explanation somewhere, though.

Thanks for the explanation, but FWIW I disagree that it is not a bug.
"Forgetting" an action that the user has taken is akin to forgetting
e.g. that a file has been changed in a text editor. Imagine a feature
that would "suspend" (whatever that means) an edit session but will
lose all changes you have made to the files w/out so much as asking
you. There may be a technical reason for what's happening but it is
still bad UI. Same as Gnus asks about changes made to a new unsent
message it should ask about updating summaries (or update them
silently). IMHO.

-- 
Cheers,
-Dima.