Re: aren't virtual groups not updated

[Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>]

>>> Do you really mean this
>>> http://www.gnus.org/manual/gnus_80.html#Select-Methods
>
>> No, he means (info "(gnus) Selection Groups").
>
> Well, the latter gives me, and I quote 
>
> ,----
> | 
> | 7 Select Methods
> | ****************
> | 
> | A “foreign group” is a group not read by the usual (or default)
> | means.

Hm, well, for me (emacs master), it gives:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
7.7.1 Select Groups
-------------------

Gnus provides the “nnselect” method for creating virtual groups composed
of collections of messages, even when these messages come from groups
that span multiple servers and backends.  For the most part these
virtual groups behave like any other group: messages may be threaded,
marked, moved, deleted, copied, etc.; groups may be ephemeral or
persistent; groups may be created via ‘gnus-group-make-group’ or browsed
as foreign via ‘gnus-group-browse-foreign-server’.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

So nnselect is a virtual, search-based group, e.g., a new and better
replacement for what has been nnir in previous Gnus versions.

Bye,
Tassilo