Re: gnus-agent typo?

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
>
>> kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) wrote:
>>> The original code is supposed to add ticked and dormant messages, I
>>> think.  And messages with other marks.  Except for the unseen and the
>>> recent mark.
>>
>> So it's supposed to add articles that have the ticked/dormant/whatever
>> mark, regardless of whether they are seen/unseen/recent/non-recent,
>> but it should not add or remove article solely on the basis of being
>> seen/unseen/recent/non-recent.  Is that right?
>
> That's my understanding.  For ticked and dormant messages, it is
> clear that it is useful to download them.
>
> (mapcar 'car (gnus-info-marks (gnus-get-info gnus-newsgroup-name)))
> => (seen cache score expire reply tick)
>
> It is, however, somewhat unclear why it would be useful to fetch
> cached or scored messages.

I think the reason to download all marked articles was that the Agent
would remove flags on non-existing articles otherwise.  I guess if we
make Agent not remove flags for non-existing articles, we can remove
the workaround to download all marked articles.