[Workaround/Solved] This bug is killing me!

[Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>]

[long story short, you _need_ gnus-propagate-marks on]

on Mon Aug 29 2011, Tassilo Horn <tassilo-AT-member.fsf.org> wrote:

> Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:
>
> Hi Dave,
>
>> This is very serious: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=9386GNU> As an emergency workaround, I've rebound `M-g' to `gnus-summary-exit'.
>> And a friend of mine remarked,
>>
>> ,----
>> | I never, ever, use M-g within a summary buffer.  I have seen enough
>> | unpredictable behavior with it through the years that I instinctively stopped
>> | trusting it.  Nowadays I exit the summary buffer, hit 'g', then go back in.
>> `----
>
> Strange, I use M-g quite frequently and never had problems.  Concerning
> your bug report, I've just ticked your article and hit M-g.  What I got
> was a summary with your still ticked article plus the other unread
> articles.  That's how it's supposed to work.
>
> Reading your bug report, it seems that the mark is not propagated to the
> server.  But even in that case, the mark should be stored locally (in
> .newsrc.eld or whatever variable holds the marks at runtime).  So
> probably the local marks not saved before exiting summary while
> propagating marks to the remote server is done immediately, which would
> explain your issue and why it works for me.
>
> Could you check if it works for you if you enable propagating marks?

Yes, it works!!  Not only that, but all the ticks on older articles that
used to persist in Gnus, but had suddenly disappeared from Gnus' view of
my server came back!

> BTW: I think, that the default of this variable should be t nowadays,
> where it's pretty common that people use different clients for accessing
> their mail (Gnus on "real" computers, Whatever on their phones, the web
> interfaces of their mail providers, etc.).

OMG, yes, please!!!

-- 
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com