From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/62785 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [Q] what does this do ?? Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 09:06:39 +0200 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1144998638 24842 80.91.229.2 (14 Apr 2006 07:10:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 07:10:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+m11312@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Apr 14 09:10:37 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FUIRw-0006pu-BL for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 09:10:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1FUIRr-0004t7-00; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 02:10:31 -0500 Original-Received: from nas02.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.40]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1FUIRW-0004t2-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 02:10:10 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by nas02.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FUIRU-0007Co-D8 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 02:10:10 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1FUIRT-0007aA-00 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 09:10:07 +0200 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FUIRO-0006lJ-GT for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 09:10:02 +0200 Original-Received: from quimbies.gnus.org ([80.91.231.2]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 09:10:02 +0200 Original-Received: from larsi by quimbies.gnus.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 09:10:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: quimbies.gnus.org Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: This Mortal Coil's _Filigree & Shadow_: "My Father" Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAIVBMVEUdHyk8PUI+QEZeO1JY V117fIF/gIWam5+8vcK/wMXh4eVuJFMWAAAACXBIWXMAAABIAAAASABGyWs+AAABiElEQVQ4y51S QW7CMBC00zwgQe4doiCuSP1AiZYA17Yq6p3SimOV4MCZguBcqVEeUJJ9ZR2HBLDdS0dKZO14dj1j Ey/wPdfzPF8sutMMS/CsOBKHSNDys15kHXeIR3IJ+y/CCteSiNfFtm51YkBOiVbpJ1Fxi1gs33ik EWQiFPMZiNVVM0J7WMQRlEXrWsEOON+obVyhYGvkS0dlqENghdutStiC8hP8iTVFe0D9DH+4U4V0 gXlnLPKINRNWCAtBvGqtWj4cEPOZpqBWKAgM9UBYUsYLuqIn7zDQ6q13eSEDNREY7iVxr+xnMMrM RMgroq2484YJmgjXf17JeqoYd1lYzc7VRNxh9XwKjYCqVaH7G5enSnf18OZO3NE+ywreRHX3eGpK u0mGnJ/99etFVzhMz8SNkvrX1X75txfSRyURb6mR2PK8+cdpZL+RUekwfyDaeKk4KrGXmJTGdxeR 1FPEc/uOOrpAnJcHxAj/yTUTBKbgmOqtUbI0Mgz4JjB1s4ABMcIh/8QvKUioS6AxGoQAAAAASUVO RK5CYII= User-Agent: Gnus/5.110005 (No Gnus v0.5) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:iDNw4Iy36eZMccQQSK3YCcYtQHU= X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:62785 Archived-At: Didier Verna writes: > There is a part that I fail to understand in nnml-generate-nov-database-1 > (when the group is empty): > > (if (not files) > (let* ((group (nnheader-file-to-group > (directory-file-name dir) nnml-directory)) > (info (cadr (assoc group nnml-group-alist)))) > (when info > (setcar info (1+ (cdr info))))) > > Can anyone explain the purpose of this ?? Uhm... if the group is empty, but there's an entry in the `nnml-group-alist', then this sets the entry to be `(45 . 44)'. Which means "empty". (The highest number being lower than the highest, if you get my drift.) Unless I'm misreading. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen