Re: 0.98 + topics = catastrophe (Was: Pterodactyl Gnus v0.98 is released)

["Jody M. Klymak" <jklymak@apl.washington.edu>]

Hi Matt,

I get the same result as Kai, but I'm using Emacs 20.4, Pgnus 0.97.
Is this problem new with 0.98?  I haven't upgraded yet!

gnus-level-subscribed is 5

Cheers,  Jody

>>>>> "MS" == Matt Swift <swift@alum.mit.edu> writes:

    >>> "K" == Kai Großjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE>
    >>> writes:
    K> Kai Großjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> writes:

    K> For me, gnus-activate-level is 4 and gnus-level-zombie is 8.  I
    K> tried your recipe: I chose a group with 0 unread messages, and
    K> typed S l 5 RET.  I then quit Emacs and restarted it.  The
    K> group appeared in the Group buffer with a * in front of it.

    MS>     [ now, setting the group to 7 ]

    K> Now the group didn't appear, but typing `L' made it appear
    K> (with `U' and `*' in front of it).

    MS> That's correct behavior if your gnus-level-subscribed is 5 or
    MS> 6.  Is it?  You are using 0.98 and emacs 20.4?  (as you do
    MS> when sending to the rcp.el list, but the mail-news gateway is
    MS> chopping your User-Agent:)

    MS> If so, I'll accept the possibility that it's my environment,
    MS> and devote hours and hours to hand tracing every line of LISP.

    MS> Would you send me a mail privately that's generated by C-c C-b
    MS> (`gnus-bug') with the To: address changed to me?  This will
    MS> allow me to set my variable state to yours and eliminate that
    MS> possible cause.

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Jody Klymak                         APL/School of Oceanography,
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