Re: Calling for testers: scratch/gnus-decoded branch

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Adam Sjøgren <asjo@koldfront.dk> writes:

> Eric writes:
>
>> Okay, that's useful information. Do you have `gnus-save-newsrc-file' set
>> to t, and is this group saved in that file? If so, is the group name
>> encoded or decoded?
>
> ,----[ C-h v gnus-save-newsrc-file RET ]
> | gnus-save-newsrc-file is a variable defined in ‘gnus-start.el’.
> | Its value is t
> | 
> | Documentation:
> | Non-nil means that Gnus will save the ‘.newsrc’ file.
> | Gnus always saves its own startup file, which is called
> | ".newsrc.eld".  The file called ".newsrc" is in a format that can
> | be readily understood by other newsreaders.  If you don’t plan on
> | using other newsreaders, set this variable to nil to save some time on
> | exit.
> | 
> | You can customize this variable.
> `----
>
> I didn't know I had that set to t, but I have.
>
> The file is empty, though?!

It's only used if your gnus-select-method is an nntp server, and then
only for that server. I thought I remembered that your nntp server was a
secondary one, but I wanted to make sure.

> $ ls -l .newsrc
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 asjo asjo 0 May 30  2015 .newsrc
>
>> (I'm trying to test with feedbase.org but Gnus never succeeds in
>> connecting to it).
>
> (Are you using nntps? There's no nntp-support on feedbase.org, only
> nntps. I'm using this in my gnus-secondary-select-methods:
>
>         (nntp "fb"
>               (nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-tls-stream) ; feedbase does not do STARTTLS (yet?)
>               (nntp-port-number 563) ; nntps
>               (nntp-address "feedbase.org"))

That's what I was trying to use! Hmm, maybe I was just being too
impatient (and my internet connection sucks here).

> Come to think of it, Feedbase might be doing things wrong with regards
> to encoding, as I didn't give it any thought.
>
> I hope I haven't sent you out on a wild goose chase here.)

I wouldn't think so -- there are so few non-ascii nntp group names out
there, I'm not sure what policy is. And if it worked before my changes,
it should certainly work after! I'll keep trying to connect to feedbase.

Thanks,
Eric