From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/55008 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: two agent nits Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 12:39:19 +0100 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1070278875 8992 80.91.224.253 (1 Dec 2003 11:41:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 11:41:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M3548@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Dec 01 12:41:12 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AQmQS-0003AH-00 for ; Mon, 01 Dec 2003 12:41:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AQmOv-0003qm-00; Mon, 01 Dec 2003 05:39:37 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AQmOr-0003qh-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 01 Dec 2003 05:39:33 -0600 Original-Received: from yxa.extundo.com (178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net [217.13.230.178]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C72573A0025 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 05:39:29 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from latte (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hB1BdRrh003945 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Mon, 1 Dec 2003 12:39:28 +0100 Original-To: Kevin Greiner Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Payment: hashcash 1.2 0:031201:kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com:ff855ee9ed73c1f7 X-Hashcash: 0:031201:kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com:ff855ee9ed73c1f7 X-Payment: hashcash 1.2 0:031201:ding@gnus.org:374fda72ff3d5651 X-Hashcash: 0:031201:ding@gnus.org:374fda72ff3d5651 In-Reply-To: (Kevin Greiner's message of "Sun, 30 Nov 2003 22:47:50 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:55008 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:55008 Kevin Greiner writes: > Simon Josefsson 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.