From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/27160 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brian May Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Bugs in PGnus Date: 23 Nov 1999 10:43:29 +1100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035164237 23162 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:37:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:37:17 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA12558 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 18:45:01 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAB25273; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 17:44:49 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 22 Nov 1999 17:44:39 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA20161 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 17:44:06 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from silas-1.cc.monash.edu.au (bam@silas-1.cc.monash.edu.au [130.194.1.91]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA12521 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 18:43:34 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from bam@localhost) by silas-1.cc.monash.edu.au (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id KAA27966; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 10:43:30 +1100 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Home-Page: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~bmay/ In-Reply-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "Mon, 22 Nov 1999 10:43:39 +0100" Original-Lines: 73 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070098 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.98) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Original-Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:27160 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:27160 >>>>> "Kai" == Kai Großjohann writes: Kai> Brian May writes: >> 1. Pushing A R doesn't retrieve article numbers on my computer >> at Uni. However it works fine at Home, with the same >> configuration, except for a different news server (one that I >> administrate) and a different .newsrc.eld file. (Lars implied >> that this shouldn't work at all - weird - or perhaps I >> misunderstood him?). Perhaps the news server here is giving bad >> index files or something - I don't particularly trust it. It >> would be good if I could be more specific though, when >> complaining to the administrator... Kai> Have you tried setting nntp-record-commands to t, then Kai> compare traces of the communication between Gnus and the NNTP Kai> server at uni and at home? No. Thanks for the suggestion. Will try that and see if anything obvious shows up... >> 2. As I already mentioned, threading often has problems, as >> messages are put with the wrong thread. This seems to be >> because "Y c" inserts cached articles at the *current* cursor >> position, and not in thread order. Pushing "T t" on the broken >> thread fixes it. >> >> (I suspect this is only part of the threading problem, but I >> can reproduce this bug... From memory I get similar problems >> without pushing "Y c" but haven't yet reproduced it "on >> demand"). Kai> I also see this problem. Hm. But I use `/ *' rather than `Y Kai> c'. Is the behavior different? Why are there two commands? I don't know, I think they are exactly the same thing though... >>From "C-h k Y c": ------------------------- Y c runs `gnus-summary-insert-cached-articles' `gnus-summary-insert-cached-articles' is an interactive compiled Lisp function -- loaded from "gnus-cache.elc" (gnus-summary-insert-cached-articles) Insert all the articles cached for this group into the current buffer. >>From "C-h k / *": ------------------------- / * runs `gnus-summary-limit-include-cached' `gnus-summary-limit-include-cached' is an alias for `gnus-summary-insert-cached\ -articles', an interactive compiled Lisp function -- loaded from "gnus-cache.elc" (gnus-summary-limit-include-cached) Insert all the articles cached for this group into the current buffer. I assume "is an alias for" means that it is exactly the same function, only with a different name. >> 3. I get lots of ~/Mail/Incoming* files, which never seem to be >> deleted. Perhaps this is to keep a backup in case things go >> wrong, however I already do that via my .forward file. Kai> See mail-source-delete-incoming. This is indeed a safety net Kai> because this is an alpha version of Gnus. Good idea. Only in my case, I already make backup copies via my .forward file, so this safety net isn't required. -- Brian May