Re: Getting the right displayed number of articles

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Eze Ogwuma <typhoon@dircon.co.uk> writes:

> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> 
> > Eze Ogwuma <typhoon@dircon.co.uk> writes:
> > 
> > > Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> > > 
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > > > I just went ahead and did it the long way round by copying to a temp
> > > > group , then 'C-u G del'  Remake group  and copy back.  The numbers are now
> > > > right but it seems a bit much.
> > > 
> > > Do you know what happens to marked and cached articles?
> > 
> > Not sure what your asking here Eze.  Do you mean concerning the
> > numbers they have?  Or do you mean during copying?  Its been my
> > experience that marks are preserved when copying takes place.
> 
> I was asking whether cached articles (*) are preserved and whether
> marks are preserved.

I usually run with caching turned off for nnml groups:
(setq gnus-uncacheable-groups "^nnml")
I turned that on and experimented a little.

Copying  (B c) seems to preserve read/unread, ticked etc.  But not
cache (*)
Moving (B m) exibits the same behavior.


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Harry Putnam  reader@newsguy.com