Re: HEADS UP: Largely rewritten gnus-agent implementation.

[Danny Siu <dsiu@adobe.com>]

oops. forgot to mention that the new gnus-agent-downloaded-article-face
(orange/yellow) is getting too much attention than the unread ones.  it is
okey for unplugged mode but when plugged, people probably don't care if the
articles is downloaded or not.  even when they do, a "+"/"-" on the summary
line would be enough.

i guess i can customize gnus-summary-highlight to use
gnus-agent-downloaded-article-face only when unplugged.

Kai Großjohann writes:

  Kai> Kevin Greiner did a really great job, I think, of improving
  Kai> gnus-agent and making it more efficient, too.  I kind of forgot what
  Kai> exactly he has changed, but I can say the following:

  Kai> * The old .fetched files that I introduced are not needed anymore.

  Kai> * gnus-agent-consider-all-articles is supported properly.

  Kai> There is a sanity check in there which invokes (debug), so if you see
  Kai> that, please report it to Kevin and/or me, with some information
  Kai> about what you were seeing.  After gathering the data (especially the
  Kai> contents of the backtrace buffer), it should be safe to just
  Kai> continue, the mess will be cleaned up automatically.

  Kai> The ChangeLog entries are from me, they are probably bogus to some
  Kai> degree.  This can be sorted out later, though.

  Kai> Kevin is gone over the weekend and he suggested that I wait with
  Kai> committing this, but I'm too excited to wait!

  Kai> Ah, maybe I should mention some gotcha.  With previous versions of
  Kai> the code (but not the one I'm checking in!) I saw that articles were
  Kai> marked as read when entering the group and they appeared to be gone.
  Kai> If this happens, don't panik.  Instead, do C-x u from the group
  Kai> buffer (gnus-undo, to revert the marking as read), then use `J u' on
  Kai> the group to fetch it, then try to enter the group again.  This
  Kai> worked reliably to make the articles reappear when I tried it.  (The
  Kai> problem only happens in plugged mode.)  I don't think that you will
  Kai> see this, but just in case...

  Kai> I think that's it!  Please report your findings.

  Kai> kai -- ~/.signature is: umop ap!sdn (Frank Nobis)


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Danny Siu