Re: Moving articles destroys all marks

["François Pinard" <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>]

Toni Drabik <tdrabik@public.srce.hr> writes:

> This morning I just moved several hundred articles from one `nnfolder'
> group to another (which didn't exist before, and was created when doing
> `B m').  After doing `F' in *Group* buffer after that, I was unpleasantly
> surprised to see that all articles in the new group appeared as unread
> and without any other marks that were applied to them in the old group
> (i.e. ticked articles became ordinary ones, and all `A' marks were
> lost, too).

By all means, I would like that moved articles recover their "unread" status.
What is the purpose of moving articles that Gnus would carefully keep out
of my sight (unless I take extraordinary measures to read them)?

I would grant that Saved or Answered status be kept with the article while
they get moved.  But definitely, I would not like any read mark on them.
The status of being tickled or dormant might be preserved or lost, yet I
would vote for loosing these, given the choice.  I definitely decide afresh
for every moved article how I want it to get lost: when moving an article,
the last thing I want is to virtually loose it, as it does not get shown.

I made a few local patches to my copy of Gnus, still 0.95, trying to erase
"readness" just before moving.  It was unbearable before.  So, I receive as
very good news that Gnus does recover the unread status spontaneously, now.
I would be tempted to call a bug whenever it does otherwise...

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François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard