Re: Expiry in virtual groups

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

Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

> Now, the question: each of these mail groups has its expiry stuff set.
> But I never enter any of them anymore because I read only the virtual
> one.  So when will the expiry process take place?  Ideally, when I
> exit the virtual groups, all the component groups should be run
> through expiry.  This might be the case; I just want to check that it
> is.

It is not the case.  Expiry is done from
`gnus-summary-prepare-exit-hook' (which defaults to
`gnus-summary-expire-articles').  The obvious kludge would be to have
the latter function also expire component groups if the current group
is a virtual group.

Uhm.  But where to do it...  I could add an
nnvirtual-request-expire-articles function, which could do its thing.
Hm.  Er.  Yes.  Probably.  But `gnus-summary-expire-articles' takes
into account group props and stuff, and we don't want the group props
from the virtual group to adhere to the component groups, do we?  That 
could be potentially catastrophic.

Hm.

Can't you just `C-c M-C-x' once in a while, like I do?  :-)

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