Drafts-group - no commands

Drafts-group - no commands

[Harry Putnam]

Once again my bungling has caused a problem.

Running 5.6.27 on Redhat linux 5.0
I rarely use the drafts group, but now it doesn't work as expected.
Saving a partial or complete message with 'C-x C-s' sends it to 'drafts
all right, but when I go there later to finish or mail it I have no
'drafts' item on the menu bar and the drafts commands don't work ('D
e' 'J S' etc).

Checking the recent (26,27) change logs I see no mention of changes in
that area, on the mailing list, no mention of drafts problems.

Checking the gnus lisp files I see gnus-draft.el and nndraft.el have
been compiled into *.elc files, but gnus-draft.elc must not be loading.
How can I check this out?

What might cause this behavior?


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Harry Putnam  reader@newsguy.com

Re: Drafts-group - no commands

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> I rarely use the drafts group, but now it doesn't work as expected.
> Saving a partial or complete message with 'C-x C-s' sends it to 'drafts
> all right, but when I go there later to finish or mail it I have no
> 'drafts' item on the menu bar and the drafts commands don't work ('D
> e' 'J S' etc).

[...]

> What might cause this behavior?

What does the output from `G p' on the drafts group look like?

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: Drafts-group - no commands

[Harry Putnam]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> 
> > I rarely use the drafts group, but now it doesn't work as expected.
> > Saving a partial or complete message with 'C-x C-s' sends it to 'drafts
> > all right, but when I go there later to finish or mail it I have no
> > 'drafts' item on the menu bar and the drafts commands don't work ('D
> > e' 'J S' etc).
> 
> [...]
> 
> > What might cause this behavior?
> 
> What does the output from `G p' on the drafts group look like?

Sorry I didn't include that info: 
'G-p' shows 'nil'  <== That is normal right?

Half way through this reply I pressed 'C-x C-s' went to group buffer
pressed 'g'  then to drafts group.  The partial message is there but
no drafts menu item or key commands to operate on it.

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Harry Putnam  reader@newsguy.com

Re: Drafts-group - no commands

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> Sorry I didn't include that info: 
> 'G-p' shows 'nil'  <== That is normal right?

No, the default value is

((gnus-dummy
  (gnus-draft-mode)))

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: Drafts-group - no commands

[Harry Putnam]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> 
> > Sorry I didn't include that info: 
> > 'G-p' shows 'nil'  <== That is normal right?
> 
> No, the default value is
> 
> ((gnus-dummy
>   (gnus-draft-mode)))
> 

That was it.   

nndrafts.queue was blank too.

Thanks again


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Harry Putnam  reader@newsguy.com

Re: Drafts-group - no commands

[Harry Putnam]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> 
> > Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> > 
> > > Sorry I didn't include that info: 
> > > 'G-p' shows 'nil'  <== That is normal right?
> > 
> > No, the default value is
> > 
> > ((gnus-dummy
> >   (gnus-draft-mode)))
> > 


I've waited patiently for someone to point out how appropriate the
answer to this query was, but I guess I'm going to get away clean....



> 
> That was it.   
> 
> nndrafts.queue was blank too.
> 
> Thanks again


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Harry Putnam  reader@newsguy.com