Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:
> Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:
>> 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.

> Please ignore it, too.  Sorry.
> By the patch, `l' doesn't show groups that have never been read
> if the server is opened for the other groups that the server
> provides.  (Even if it worked, `gnus-group-method' used in the
> patch should have been replaced with `gnus-group-name-to-method'.)
> Sigh.

This may be the third time lucky: