Re: Inactive groups got unshown by `l'

[Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>]

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Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:
[...]
> I haven't yet investigated what changed the behavior.  But which
> do you think reasonable?

> 1. `l' shows only active groups of which the levels are less than
>  or equal to `gnus-group-default-list-level'.

> 2. `l' shows active and inactive groups of which the levels are
>  less than or equal to `gnus-group-default-list-level'.

> If the former is adopted, only `L' is the means to recall what
> inactive groups a user subscribes to are.  A user cannot browse
> inactive servers (i.e., servers that have never been opened) to
> know what groups are there because they are not listed in the
> server buffer.

> I can live with `L', though. ;-)

The patch below seems to achieve `2', that is the previous
behavior that Gnus has been going for years.  When I start Gnus
with the prefix argument 2, the inactive level 4 groups don't
appear in the group buffer, but `l' shows them with `*'s as
numbers of those groups.


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--- gnus-group.el~	2010-09-05 22:46:18 +0000
+++ gnus-group.el	2010-09-07 05:46:35 +0000
@@ -1350,7 +1350,8 @@
 	      group (gnus-info-group info)
 	      params (gnus-info-params info)
 	      newsrc (cdr newsrc)
-	      unread (gnus-group-unread group))
+	      unread (or (gnus-group-unread group)
+			 (not (gnus-server-opened (gnus-group-method group)))))
 	(when not-in-list
 	  (setq not-in-list (delete group not-in-list)))
 	(when (gnus-group-prepare-logic