From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79804 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: This bug is killing me! Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:49:14 -0800 Message-ID: References: <87aaapmsn9.fsf@andy.bu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1314820568 804 80.91.229.12 (31 Aug 2011 19:56:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 19:56:08 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M28098@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Aug 31 21:56:03 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QyqtH-0000jV-EX for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:56:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QyqsS-0000GP-Tm; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:55:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QyqsR-0000GE-MP for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:55:11 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QyqsP-0004J6-Re for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:55:11 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QyqsM-0007QA-VH for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:55:06 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QyqsM-0000Dh-RV for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:55:06 +0200 Original-Received: from 92-52-237-24.gci.net ([24.237.52.92]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:55:06 +0200 Original-Received: from dave by 92-52-237-24.gci.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:55:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 92-52-237-24.gci.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/23.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:iSuzMVLV43zczz6bejKwqTTbn9E= X-Spam-Score: -5.4 (-----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79804 Archived-At: on Wed Aug 31 2011, Andrew Cohen wrote: >>>>>> "Dave" == Dave Abrahams writes: > > Dave> This is very serious: > Dave> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=9386GNUAs an > > I took a minute to look at this and think I have a fix. However I'm not > that familiar with this code and it might break something else. Any > brave souls willing to test it out, just try this replacement function > for `gnus-summary-insert-articles'. (You can just replace it on the fly; > no need to restart gnus. Put in scratch buffer and evaluate). Thanks for your work on this. It looks like a fairly low-risk change, so I'll try it out. And maybe it's a necessary bug fix for other reasons, but still... it seems like a function (gnus-summary-rescan-group) whose documentation says it exits the group and re-enters it should be written to do exactly that. Am I missing something? Dave -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com