Re: [PATCH] Make gnus-summary-delete-article respect group parameters

[Steve Youngs <youngs@xemacs.org>]

|--==> "SJ" == Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

  SJ> Yup.  I also like B DEL to really delete the article, but I don't
  SJ> think it is important enough to modify existing behaviour.  Let's wait
  SJ> for someone to report it as a bug, and then we can discuss it. :-)

Well, consider this a bug report.  IMO, B DEL should ignore all group
parameters especially expiry settings.  The only thing that B DEL
should do is physically delete the article, completely, forever, do
not pass go, do not collect 200 euro, the judges decision is final, no
correspondence will be entered into.

And up until I read this thread I'd been merrily B DEL'ing all the
crud out of my mail groups.  Now I find out that they haven't been
deleted and are all hiding in my archives... sheesh.

Please, Gnus boys 'n' girls, make B DEL do what B DEL should... Bloody
DELete.

Besides, just look at the doc for it...

,----[ C-h k B DEL ]
| B DEL runs `gnus-summary-delete-article'
| 
| `gnus-summary-delete-article' is an interactive compiled Lisp function
|   -- loaded from "gnus-sum"
| (gnus-summary-delete-article &optional N)
| 
| Documentation:
| Delete the N next (mail) articles.
| This command actually deletes articles.	 This is not a marking
| command.  The article will disappear forever from your life, never to
| return.
| If N is negative, delete backwards.
| If N is nil and articles have been marked with the process mark,
| delete these instead.
`----

Now, I've read that a dozen or so times and I just can't make it mean
"when we say 'delete' we don't actually mean delete, we mean run the
article through the normal expiry functions and if you use
expiry-targets to archive your mail the article will go into the
archive and won't get deleted at all".

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