From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Subject: Re: NNTP marks code breaks .newsrc
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 12:33:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ilu3c4179mv.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m33c41ld5s.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org>
Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
> Dear reader,
>
> I am at a loss now.
>
> I want to use Gnus locally and Tin over ssh when off-site, which has
> worked well up to what I get with cvs -D2004-05-13 update.
>
> Since cvs -D2004-05-14 update, this no longer works, Gnus doesn't notice
> when the .newsrc file has marked articles as read.
>
> I've put (setq nntp-marks-is-evil t) in .gnus, quit emacs, removed
> News/marks and its contents, started Gnus, checked it has
> nntp-marks-is-evil set to t (it does) - doesn't help, Gnus still doesn't
> care for .newsrc.
>
> I install Gnus as of 2004-05-13, articles read in Tin are marked read in
> Gnus without further ado. I install Gnus as of 2004-05-14, only articles
> read in Gnus are marked read. I switch back to 2004-05-13, they are
> hidden from view again.
>
> The NNTP-marks code appears to shadow some .newsrc stuff.
>
> Any help will be appreciated,
Does (setq gnus-agent-synchronize-flags 'ask) help?
I have now reverted the default from nil to 'ask in CVS, seems like
many people have reported this problem, and as far as I can tell,
nobody explained why nil is better.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-09 10:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-09 9:53 Matthias Andree
2004-07-09 10:33 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2004-07-09 12:10 ` Matthias Andree
2004-07-09 12:43 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-07-12 9:54 ` Matthias Andree
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