Re: overriding marks for synchronization

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 13:18:57 +0200 Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> wrote: 

SB> Ok, some user experiences, once I've been able to save to the sync file:
SB>  - Most of the time synchronization from other machines doesn't seem to
SB>    take place
SB>  - In one case yesterday, synchronization from my netbook to my desktop
SB>    machine actually happened on the desktop machine, but only on the
SB>    third consecutive start of M-x gnus on that machine
SB>  - On my netbook tramp complains on Gnus startup that the process buffer
SB>    has died, killing gnus in the startup, and the half-ready *Group*
SB>    buffer, and then starting gnus again, seems to fix the issue
SB>  - In two cases now, starting gnus on my netbook (which was the last one
SB>    to save to the gnussync file), some already read articles on this
SB>    group and on gmane.discuss were shown as unread

SB> Do you need to see some of my gnus config (of which there is quite a
SB> bit) to see what might be different from yours.

No, it's OK.  I have to work out a nicer merge algorithm instead of
"just overwrite."  In the process I'll put safeguards around the
existing code to catch the cases you describe.

Ted