Re: updating backend marks immediately

[Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> writes:
>
>> And are commands 309 and 310 needed?
>>
>> 10:14:38 309 SELECT "test"
>> 10:14:38 310 UID FETCH 1:* FLAGS
>
> I think the idea here is that if you move something to a group, that
> group's group line should be updated immediately, so you don't have to
> wait until the next `g' to find the article.  And
> `gnus-group-get-new-news-this-group' does the equivalent of `M-g' on the
> group, so it's slow.
>
> I'd be fine with just removing that code snippet altogether.  Does `B m'
> have to update the resulting groups immediately?  

I don't mind keeping it, as my imap server is local.  Ideally, since we
know which articles we added to the group, we could update the
information without contacting the server.  But unless someone else
finds that the current way is too slow, maybe just leaving things as
they are is fine.

Dan