From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/53538 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lloyd Zusman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Looking for the variable that controls newsgroup scanning Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 19:12:48 -0400 Organization: FreeBSD/Linux Hippopotamus Preserve Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1059088333 396 80.91.224.249 (24 Jul 2003 23:12:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 23:12:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M2082@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Jul 25 01:12:11 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19fpFr-000067-00 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 01:12:11 +0200 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 19fpGq-0006QG-00; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 18:13:12 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19fpGV-0006Q5-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 18:12:51 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 61492 invoked by alias); 24 Jul 2003 23:12:50 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 61487 invoked from network); 24 Jul 2003 23:12:50 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO asfast.net) (jut116@216.182.10.250) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 24 Jul 2003 23:12:50 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 0) by asfast.net with local; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 19:12:48 -0400 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: "!ga1s|?LNLE3MeeeEYs(%LIl9q[xV9!j4#xf4!**BFW_ihlOb;:Slb>)vy>CJM (Xavier Maillard's message of "Thu, 24 Jul 2003 19:33:40 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:53538 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:53538 Xavier Maillard 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. -- Lloyd Zusman ljz@asfast.com