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Subject: Re: `**' status indicator in *topics* buffer and `g' -vs- `M-g'
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SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:

> (After hitting `s' for save in the *topics* buffer, ie. assuming Gnus
> thinks the *topics* buffer doesn't need saving) hitting `g' to reread
> all groups does not change the `--/**' buffer modified indicator on
> the mode-line.  Hitting M-g on top of a group does change it.  I've
> observed this behavior long enough for it to be a feature, but I've
> never been able to make any sense in the logic of it.

What the "**" really indicates is that there's been a change to the
dribble buffer.  Which is kinda confusing.  But `M-g' adds the change
to the dribble buffer, and `g' doesn't, which is what you're seeing
what you're seeing.  I'm not sure myself whether this is a feature or
a bug.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen