Re: problems with nnvirtual and marks

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

dme@dme.org writes:

> For example, if a virtual group comprised of various nnml groups has a
> ticked article, pressing "d" on the article in the nnvirtual group
> doesn't result in the "tick" mark being removed from the corresponding
> nnml group's .marks file (after quitting the group, gnus, emacs, etc).

[...]

> (deffoo nnvirtual-request-set-mark (group actions &optional server)
>   (nnvirtual-possibly-change-server server)
>   (dolist (action actions)
>       (let ((range (nth 0 action))
> 	    (what  (nth 1 action))
> 	    (marks (nth 2 action)))
> 	(assert (or (eq what 'add) (eq what 'del)) t
> 		"Unknown request-set-mark action: %s" what)
> 	(dolist (article (gnus-uncompress-range range))
> 	  (let* ((amap (nnvirtual-map-article article))
> 		 (cgroup (car amap)))
> 	    (dolist (mark marks)
> 	      (gnus-request-set-mark cgroup (list (list (list (cdr amap)) what marks)))))))))

> This improves the specific problem mentioned above - the removal of
> "tick" marks now passes through from nnvirtual to nnml and the .marks
> file gets updated.
>
> However, when nnvirtual-request-set-mark is called with a large range
> (over a couple of thousand articles), which seems to happen when I
> enter a group sometimes, the iteration over the expanded range causes
> emacs to go away and hide for a while (not sure how long - enough to
> be "irritating", which probably means >10 seconds :-).

Yes, this sounds like the right solution to the problems.  But there
should be a more efficient way of iterating over the articles than
that... 

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