Re: Noobish question: why doesn't nnrss display anything?

[Joseph Barillari <jbarilla@princeton.edu>]

>>>>> "MAH" == Mark A Hershberger <mah@everybody.org> writes:

    MAH> Joseph Barillari <jbarilla@princeton.edu> writes:
    >> If I hit `B <ret> nnrss <ret>', I get the nnrss URL prompt. 

    MAH> You've hit a bug.  That method doesn't work as expected.

    MAH> Try "G R url RET" in the *Group* buffer instead.

Thanks. That took care of the subscription problem, but another one
arose:

As suggested in http://my.gnus.org/Lisp/1031707976, I have (setq
nnrss-use-local t) in my .gnus. I used nnrss-generate-download-script
to generate a shell-script to fetch the feeds, and I have a cron job
that runs that shell script. The shell script works.

The trouble is that nnrss doesn't update the .el files corresponding
to the .xml files when I hit `g' to get new news. It's clearly doing
_something_ with them, for `g' takes a few seconds with the nnrss
groups subscribed (rather than a fraction of a second if I unsubscribe
from them).

Result: the .xml files have new articles, the .el files have old
articles, and so do the summary buffers for the group.

Any suggestions on how I might diagnose this? 

Thanks in advance,

--Joe


    >> P.S.: If Shenghuo Zhu is on this list, please accept my compliments for
    >> implementing another reason to never leave gnus.

    MAH> FWIW, I've done most of the recent work on nnrss.  And I'm probably to
    MAH> blame for this breakage.

Regardless of the breakage, thanks for the code. It's a very cool idea.

-- 
Joseph Barillari -- http://barillari.org