Re: Getting the right displayed number of articles

[Francisco Solsona <solsona@deprof.fciencias.unam.mx>]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

[...]

> messages to the same group ie in ding-list 'B m' 300 articles to
> 'ding-list', but still the displayed number is 1200+. Even after a
> full restart.

	You must've forgotten at least one of the small-numbered
articles. For instance, I have this "auctex" group with only four
articles in it, so I go:

~/Mail % ls auctex
1   12  37  61

and then I do (group buffer), 'B m' (or 'B r') on those four articles
and I get:

~/Mail % ls auctex
62  63  64  65 

and Gnus now thinks that there are only 4 messages in the group, which 
is correct, instead of (1+ (- 61 1)) ==> 61. Try entering the group
with 'C-u RET' so you don't miss any of the articles, mark them all
and do the 'B m' thing. No need to restart Gnus, just re-entering the
group works for me.

	I just did this using Gnus v5.6.33, because the patch to
make it v5.6.34 told me:

solsona@deprof ...lisp/gnus/gnus-beta % patch -p 2 < gnus-5.6.33-5.6.34.diff.gz
patching file `lisp/gnus-msg.el'
patching file `lisp/gnus-score.el'
patching file `lisp/gnus.el'
patching file `lisp/ChangeLog'
patching file `Makefile.in'
patching file `Makefile.in'
Hunk #1 FAILED at 16.
Hunk #2 FAILED at 74.
Hunk #3 FAILED at 90.
3 out of 3 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to Makefile.in.rej
patching file `texi/gnus.texi' 

:-(... downloading the whole tarball. HTH, though.
Francisco
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