Re: Can't select group created by copying

[Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se>]

Jon K Hellan <Jon.K.Hellan@item.ntnu.no> writes:

> Have investigated further.
> 
> There is code to update the group that has been moved to in
> gnus-summary-move-article,  gnus-sum.el, around l 7280.
> 
> 	(let* ((pto-group (gnus-group-prefixed-name
> 			   (car art-group) to-method))
> ==>	       (entry
> 		(gnus-gethash pto-group gnus-newsrc-hashtb))
> 	       (info (nth 2 entry))
>                (to-group (gnus-info-group info))
> 	       to-marks)
> 	  ;; Update the group that has been moved to.
> 	  (when (and info
> 		     (memq action '(move copy)))
> 	    (unless (member to-group to-groups)
> 	      (push to-group to-groups))
> 
> But entry is nil for the newly created group, so do not find a
> to-group.

Ah, yes. Have a look at the select method on the newly created group
(`G E' in the group buffer). My bet it says (nnimap "foo") when it
should've been either "nnimap:foo" or (nnimap "foo" (nnimap-address
...)).

Either way, does this patch help?

1999-07-07  Simon Josefsson  <jas@pdc.kth.se>

	* gnus-sum.el (gnus-summary-move-article): Better method search.

--- gnus-sum.el.DIST	Wed Jul  7 21:12:50 1999
+++ gnus-sum.el	Wed Jul  7 21:13:22 1999
@@ -7200,7 +7200,7 @@
 	     articles prefix))
       (set (intern (format "gnus-current-%s-group" action)) to-newsgroup))
     (setq to-method (or select-method
-			(gnus-group-name-to-method to-newsgroup)))
+			(gnus-find-method-for-group to-newsgroup)))
     ;; Check the method we are to move this article to...
     (unless (gnus-check-backend-function
 	     'request-accept-article (car to-method))