Re: `^ ... RET' server mode adds groups to *Group*?

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:

> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> 
> > I'm still confused as to what it does.  Is it different than pressing
> > `A A' in group buffer? 
> 
> There differences are that `A A'
>     1. does not list groups on foreign servers;
>     2. sorts groups by name and list them in flat mode;
>     3. does not show the levels of groups.
> 
> > That server has some 29,000+ groups.
> > 
> > Pressing `A A' in Group gives me. 
> > some 29,000 lines  1300K of active file
> > 
> > Pressing <RET> on that nntp server in server_buffer gives me some 40 lines 
> 
> Do you use it in unplugged mode?

Ahhh theres the rub... I was unplugged.  I see how it works now  and
the extra functionality is nice.  Esp. since we still have <spc> for
the old behavior.

Regexp matching is another good reason to move it to group buffer.

[...]

> > So it is different than `A A'?
> 
> Yes.

Yes indeed.  Another difference that isn't so apparent is that `A A'
works the same plugged or unplugged.  (long as a link is up, of course)

Whereas  the new `<RET> on server' offers different functionality
plugged and unplugged.  More options, always a plus.

One thing I noticed that may be a small bug is that under certain
conditions after pressing <spc> on a server.  When leaving that buffer
with `q'.  It can cause a major cpu drain while emacs pulls down all
available cpu and does nothing (not visibly any way).

I haven't been able to repoduce this reliably but it happened three
times (not in sequence) while I've been experimenting with this new
functionality.