bug in sparse threads

bug in sparse threads

[Colin Rafferty]

Hi-

I have the gnus-build-sparse-threads set to `t', and this has very
weird repercussions.

I have a pair of articles in an nnml group that are in the cache
(marked with a `?').  I don't see them when I enter the group (as I
shouldn't), but I do see phantom articles that are in the thread.

Here is what I see when I enter the group, and it has one new article
(note that gnus-summary-same-subject is "\\\\"):


Q   [   0:                     ] Re: mime-encoded email (and vm)
Q   [   0:                     ]   \\
Q   [   0:                     ]     \\
    [  11: +James Saveliff     ] taken hostage by xemacs


If I then do a `/ D' (gnus-summary-limit-include-dormant), it shows
the dormant messages within their phantom thread:


Q   [   0:                     ] Re: mime-encoded email (and vm)
? + [  20: +David Laks         ]   \\
Q   [   0:                     ]   \\
Q   [   0:                     ]     \\
Q   [   0:                     ]       \\
? + [ 119: +Isaac Hollander    ]         \\
    [  11: +James Saveliff     ] taken hostage by xemacs


Is there anything that I can do to fix all this?  I like sparse
threads.

-- 
Colin

Re: bug in sparse threads

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Colin Rafferty <craffert@ms.com> writes:

> I have the gnus-build-sparse-threads set to `t', and this has very
> weird repercussions.
> 
> I have a pair of articles in an nnml group that are in the cache
> (marked with a `?').  I don't see them when I enter the group (as I
> shouldn't), but I do see phantom articles that are in the thread.

Well, the t setting is supposed to build oodles of sparse threads,
while the `some' setting is supposed to be pruned out anything
irrelevant.  So I'm not sure whether to consider this a bug.

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen