From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Subject: Re: Drafts group loses special property
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 18:06:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <iluznnnwcu0.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874r5vfjw4.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> (Florian Weimer's message of "Sat, 22 Mar 2003 17:25:47 +0100")
Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>
>> Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
>>
>>> gnus-draft.el is not even loaded, and the group appears ss if it were
>>> an ordinary mail group.
>>>
>>> How can I fix this?
>>
>> C-k and restart? G p on the group should include (gnus-dummy
>> (gnus-draft-mode)). If you can reproduce how the group parameter is
>> lost, it would be good. Seems like people see this from time to time.
>
> Thanks, C-k fixes it. I have no idea what has happened. It might be
> an artifact remaining from a major confusion in which Gnus subscribed
> all NNTP groups as nnml mail groups. 8-(
>
> Maybe we should apply the following documentation patch, although it
> is a bit embarrassing?
I tried to reword it to make it more general, so that the information
in the manual is useful even when the bug has been fixed. Now added,
thanks for suggesting it.
Index: gnus.texi
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/gnus/texi/gnus.texi,v
retrieving revision 6.450
diff -u -p -r6.450 gnus.texi
--- gnus.texi 22 Mar 2003 00:52:52 -0000 6.450
+++ gnus.texi 22 Mar 2003 17:04:26 -0000
@@ -11561,7 +11561,13 @@ read---all articles in the group are per
If the group doesn't exist, it will be created and you'll be subscribed
to it. The only way to make it disappear from the Group buffer is to
-unsubscribe it.
+unsubscribe it. The special properties of the draft group comes from
+a group property (@pxref{Group Parameters}), and if lost the group
+behaves like any other group. This means the commands below will not
+be available. To restore the special properties of the group, the
+simplest way is to kill the group, using @kbd{C-k}, and restart
+Gnus. The group is automatically created again with the
+correct parameters. The content of the group is not lost.
@c @findex gnus-dissociate-buffer-from-draft
@c @kindex C-c M-d (Mail)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-22 17:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-22 15:44 Florian Weimer
2003-03-22 16:15 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-03-22 16:25 ` Florian Weimer
2003-03-22 17:06 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
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