`M-g' does not update my `Agent' `groups' file.

`M-g' does not update my `Agent' `groups' file.

[Mike McEwan]

Hi,
   As my news-server doesn't appear to update its active file that
often, I have the following in my ~/.gnus.el in order to force gnus to
issue the `GROUP group' command instead of `LIST ACTIVE group'.

  However, when selectively finding out if there are any new articles
to download for a given group via an `M-g' I've noticed that the
`groups' file in the appropriate news directory does *not* get updated
as it does when doing just a `g' in the group buffer. This means that
having downloaded news articles for a given group and then exiting and
restarting gnus, the last lot of downloaded articles will not be
visible when entering the group as the `groups' file is still as was
*before* these articles were downloaded.
 
  This can't be right - can it?

-- 
Mike.

Re: `M-g' does not update my `Agent' `groups' file.

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Mike McEwan <mike@lotusland.demon.co.uk> writes:

>   However, when selectively finding out if there are any new articles
> to download for a given group via an `M-g' I've noticed that the
> `groups' file in the appropriate news directory does *not* get updated
> as it does when doing just a `g' in the group buffer. This means that
> having downloaded news articles for a given group and then exiting and
> restarting gnus, the last lot of downloaded articles will not be
> visible when entering the group as the `groups' file is still as was
> *before* these articles were downloaded.
> 
>   This can't be right - can it?

No, but that's the way it is today.  The Agent active file thing will
have to be re-done, because it's way silly today.

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