Re: Strange auto-caching

[Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com>]

kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com> writes:
>
>> From what you are describing gnus-agent-fetch-selected-article updates
>> the internals correctly.  The problem has to be in its call to
>> gnus-summary-update-article-line.  I've already found, and I thought,
>> fixed a problem in this call.  There must be something else going
>> wrong.  Can you step through it to see what is happening?  What
>> happened before was that g-s-u-a-l jumped to, and updated, the wrong
>> line in the summary.
>
> My problem has nothing to do with gnus-summary-update-article-line.  I
> think...  I just did M-x edebug-defun RET on it, then entered a group
> and got this result (slightly massaged because of UTF-8 characters in
> thread trees):
>
> -   Thu 16.01., 19k: Robert J. Chass | Re: errors in Tramp FTP, yet file fetched
> -  +Sat 18.01.,3.7k: Kai Großjohann  | Todo: Forbidden word "path"
> -   Sun 19.01.,2.5k: Michael Albinus |  \-
> +Q  Jan 01 '70,0.0k:                 | Re: Preserve permissions after backup?
> -   Mon 27.01.,2.3k: Eli Zaretskii   | \-
> -   Mon 27.01.,2.0k: Richard Stallma |  \-
> +   Tue 28.01.,2.3k: Michael Albinus | Re: tramp (2.0.28); ange-ftp stopped working
> +   Tue 28.01.,3.0k: Michael Albinus | Re: Todo
>
> %O is the first char in each line.
>
> The function gnus-summary-update-article-line was not called.
>
> I verified that the `-' marked articles were also fetched by exiting
> the group, going unplugged, reentering the group, selecting Eli's or
> Richard's article.
>
> Something else is also wrong in that `.' does not jump to `-' marked
> articles, only to `+' marked ones.  Maybe
> gnus-summary-first-unread-article and %O are accessing the same,
> wrong, data structure?
>
> Is there another function that I could trace through?
>
> Is anyone else seeing similar problems?
> -- 
> A turnip curses Elvis


What do you have gnus-agent-mark-unread-after-downloaded set to?

Kevin