Re: gnus-subscribe-topics doesn't seem to work (fixed, kind of)

[Dmitry Yaitskov <dimas@home.com>]

ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> wrote:

> Dmitry Yaitskov <dimas@home.com> writes:
> 
> 
> [...]
> 
> > in my .gnus.el, I saw that gnus-subscribe-topics never got called. It
> > turned out that gnus-group-find-new-groups (what is bound to F in the
> > group buffer) eventually invoked gnus-ask-server-for-new-groups - and
> > that method calls gnus-subscribe-options-newsgroup-method and not
> > gnus-subscribe-newsgroup-method, to subscribe to new groups. I do not
> > understand the logic behind this stuff, so cannot really say what
> > should be the correct fix - but the way it is seems broken to me.
> 
> I bet that those groups you mentioned are options newsgroups.

Hm. Now that you say it... and I have looked up "options" in gnus'
help, I do understand what goes on here. Yes, the new groups I'm
talking about are nnfolder groups created by expiring into a group. I
*do* want them to be subscribed automatically (which is what the
"options" group - i.e. a one that matches the
gnus-auto-subscribed-groups regexp - means, right?)... but at the same
time I very much want them to be put in apropriate topics (spec'd by
subscribe parameter). The two behaviors - always subscribing new
groups if match certain criteria and putting newly subscribed groups
in certain place - seem completely unrelated, the fact that they are
kind of mutually exclusive seems broken to me.

So... what is the *correct* way to do that?

<snip>
> > With these two fixes, it all now seems to work.
> 
> This is NOT a fix. The topic parameters should be something like
> 
>         ((subscribe . "nnslashdot:"))
> 
> instead of
> 
>         ((subscribe "nnslashdot:"))

Oops, sorry.

> If you are not sure what it is, use `G c' instead of `G p'.

Thank you. (and if I'm not sure what `G c' is - should I use Outlook
Express instead?... just kidding.)

> ShengHuo
> 
> 

-- 
Cheers,
-Dima.