Re: Looking for the variable that controls newsgroup scanning

[Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com>]

Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org> writes:

> On 23 jui 2003, Lloyd Zusman outgrape:
>
>>  I'm making use of several nnimap groups, each of which being defined
>>  within `gnus-secondary-select-methods'.  As far as I can tell, each
>>  one is defined identically, the only difference being their names.
>>  
>>  However, only the first of these three gets updated during
>>  `gnus-group-get-new-news'.  [ ... ]
>>  
>>  [ ... ]
>>
>>  Could any of you suggest some possible variables or settings that
>>  might control this?
>
> Maybe a clue : do you take advantage of (*the so cool*) (un)plug
> feature ?
>
> Ok forget about that it can't be the source of your problems ;)
>
> Maybe you have defined an alist of servers not to be checked during a
> g-g-g-n-n ? (at least automatically) 

Not that I know of.  Is there such an alist that's a standard part of
gnus?  I did not define my own.


> Last but not least how do you call the function ? 
> This is the relevant info section for g-g-g-n-n :
>
> ,----[ C-h f gnus-group-get-new-news RET ]
> | gnus-group-get-new-news is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `gnus-group'.
> | (gnus-group-get-new-news &optional ARG)
> | 
> | Get newly arrived articles.
> | If ARG is a number, it specifies which levels you are interested in
> | re-scanning.  If ARG is non-nil and not a number, this will force
> | "hard" re-reading of the active files from all servers.
> | 
> | [back]
> `----
>
> Maybe your groups are not on the same level ? Maybe you inhibit some
> hooks such as gnus-get-top-news-hook or gnus-get-new-news-hook ?

Nope ... all of them are at the same level.  And I invoke the
function with no argument.


> Sorry if I am not clear but I am still a n00b at trying to help people
> getting out of their problems :)

You are quite clear, and I thank you sincerely.  This just turns out to
still be a mystery to me.



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 Lloyd Zusman
 ljz@asfast.com