Re: two agent nits

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com> writes:

> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>
>> * I can't seem to get the agent to fetch read articles.
>>   gnus-agent-consider-all-articles's value is t
>>   The default agent category predicate is 'true'.
>>   `J s' and `J u' just download unread or ticked articles.
>
> Have to tried setting gnus-agent-consider-all-articles to nil?  That
> seems to work for me.

I tried, but still the same.  Pressing `J u' on groups just say it is
finished, but only the unread/ticked articles are in my local cache.

Hm.  The manual and the docstring for the variable doesn't seem to be
in sync.  I thought the variable did what the docstring said, but the
manual just discuss missing headers.  Which one is correct?

gnus-agent-consider-all-articles's value is t
If non-nil, consider also the read articles for downloading.

`gnus-agent-consider-all-articles'
     If `gnus-agent-consider-all-articles' is non-`nil', the agent will
     fetch all missing headers.  When `nil', the agent will fetch only
     new headers.  The default is `nil'.

>> * The custom type of gnus-agent-expire-days is integer.  What if I
>>   don't want articles to be expired?  Nil?  0?  Either way, it should
>>   be documented and the custom type improved.
>
> gnus-agent-expire-days is archiac (perhaps the documentation should
> say that) as it provides a global value.  It used to provide a list of
> regular expressions matching group names but that didn't provide a
> visual interface for maintaining it.  This use was deleted in 5.10 and
> replaced by agent parameters in categories, groups, and topics (See
> Agent Basics in the manual).
>
> If you want to globally turn expiration OFF, see
> gnus-agent-enable-expiration.

Ah, that variable is what I want.  Thanks.  I added a link in the
docstring in case others make the same mistake.