Can't ask Gnus to check for all unknown groups

Can't ask Gnus to check for all unknown groups

[Hallvard B Furuseth]

If you edit .newsrc.eld (and .newsrc if you have got one) and remove a
group, `gnus-group-find-new-groups' won't reinsert it if you have
	gnus-check-new-newsgroups = 'ask-server
	gnus-read-active-file     = 'some
That can happen if you tidy up .newsrc.eld "by hand" without considering
your gnus setup too closely.

So I suggest that `gnus-group-find-new-groups' gets a prefix arg which
causes it to in effect do
	(let ((gnus-check-new-newsgroups t)
              (gnus-read-active-file     t))
	  ...)
if gnus-save-killed-list is non-nil.

(If it did this for gnus-save-killed-list = nil, all the killed groups
would be reinserted in .newsrc.eld, which seems like a good way to start
a "chop up Lars with an axe"-competition.  Though of course
gnus-save-killed-list = nil could instead cause the new groups to be
listed in a *Killed Groups* buffer or something, from which the user
could pick his groups.  Or maybe something like that exists already?)

-- 
Hallvard

Re: Can't ask Gnus to check for all unknown groups

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> writes:

> So I suggest that `gnus-group-find-new-groups' gets a prefix arg which
> causes it to in effect do
> 	(let ((gnus-check-new-newsgroups t)
>               (gnus-read-active-file     t))
> 	  ...)
> if gnus-save-killed-list is non-nil.

`C-u C-u F' could do this, I guess, if this is useful...

> (If it did this for gnus-save-killed-list = nil, all the killed groups
> would be reinserted in .newsrc.eld, which seems like a good way to start
> a "chop up Lars with an axe"-competition.  Though of course
> gnus-save-killed-list = nil could instead cause the new groups to be
> listed in a *Killed Groups* buffer or something, from which the user
> could pick his groups.  Or maybe something like that exists already?)

By default, new groups are subscribed as zombies.

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: Can't ask Gnus to check for all unknown groups

[Hallvard B Furuseth]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> writes:
> 
> By default, new groups are subscribed as zombies.

Duh.  Right.  So the hypothetical `C-u C-u F' should temporarily restore
that default if gnus-save-killed-list = nil.

-- 
Hallvard

Re: Can't ask Gnus to check for all unknown groups

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> writes:

> Duh.  Right.  So the hypothetical `C-u C-u F' should temporarily restore
> that default if gnus-save-killed-list = nil.

Ok.  I've added this to Gnus 5.6.32.

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(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen