Re: nnir group marks don't propagate?

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> Andrew Cohen <cohen@bu.edu> writes:
>
>>>>>>> "EA" == Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>>
>>     EA> Am I hallucinating this, that marks set in an nnir search group
>>     EA> used to propagate to the "actual" server group? I could have
>>     EA> sworn this worked, as I think it used to be one of my major uses
>>     EA> of nnir searches: to "recover" old messages by ticking them or
>>     EA> marking them unread.
>>
>> Yes this should definitely work (and has worked for years and years). It
>> is still working in my setup (just checked) but I am using the
>> gnus-select feature branch.
>>
>> The updating should NOT invoke gnus-summary-update-info; the nnir group info
>> list is not saved to the newsrc (unless you are using permanent search
>> groups). The trick is to update the info for the underlying group that
>> the marked messages are from, and this is done elsewhere. Exactly where,
>> err, I would have to go back and look at nnir.
>
> Good to hear from you!
>
> That's what I thought/hoped. I was sure I'd been using nnir like this
> for years, and it seems to me that it was only in the past month or two
> that it stopped working. Lars has returned from the dead and starting
> fixing bugs, so that was my first suspicion, but it's really hard to
> tell.

I re-built an Emacs from around a year ago, and observed the same
problem, so I guess it's something in my setup, though I can't imagine
what (as usual).

If anyone else happens to see this, do let me know...

E