Re: Summarize from a partial NNTP read

[Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> writes:
>> Sometimes the server hangs when it has sent 40-200 K headers.  (Well,
>> Gnus hangs anyway, I don't know what the server is doing.)
> 
> Hm.  Well, it would be interesting to find out why that happens...

Tell me what to debug and I'll try some day.

>> In both cases, I'd like to ^G and generate a *Summary* of the headers
>> that the server did manage to send.  Is that possible?
> 
> It actually wouldn't be that difficult to do -- one could just catch
> the `C-g' (when fetching headers) and then just point Gnus at the
> half-arrived headers.  Gnus assumes that any articles it can't get
> headers for have expired, so one would have to do something about
> that, which means that I think it's too much work anyway.

Maybe it would be simpler to not catch the C-g, and not clean up after
the partial fetch (until the next Gnus command, anyway).  Then the user
could call a command similar to `gnus-group-select-group' which would
use the previous NNTP data instead of rereading NNTP, and pretend it
only asked for the headers that were actually received.

-- 
Hallvard