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From: Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com>
Subject: Re: two agent nits
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 16:28:50 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uad6aua59.fsf@xpediantsolutions.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <iluhe0jdkk6.fsf@latte.josefsson.org>

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>
>> Hm.  The manual and the docstring for the variable doesn't seem to be
>> in sync.  I thought the variable did what the docstring said, but the
>> manual just discuss missing headers.  Which one is correct?
>>
>> gnus-agent-consider-all-articles's value is t
>> If non-nil, consider also the read articles for downloading.
>>
>> `gnus-agent-consider-all-articles'
>>      If `gnus-agent-consider-all-articles' is non-`nil', the agent will
>>      fetch all missing headers.  When `nil', the agent will fetch only
>>      new headers.  The default is `nil'.
>
> I changed the manual, it now says:
>
> `gnus-agent-consider-all-articles'
>      If `gnus-agent-consider-all-articles' is non-`nil', the agent will
>      let the agent predicate decide whether articles need to be
>      downloaded or not, for all articles.  When `nil', the default, the
>      agent will only let the predicate decide whether unread articles
>      are downloaded or not.  If you enable this, you may also want to
>      look into the agent expiry settings (see *note Category Variables::),
>      so that the agent doesn't download articles which the agent will
>      later expire, over and over again.

Sounds good.  I'll update the docstring to something similar.

Kevin



  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-02 22:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-30 16:53 Simon Josefsson
2003-11-30 19:53 ` Harry Putnam
2003-11-30 20:18   ` Simon Josefsson
2003-12-01  3:13     ` Harry Putnam
2003-12-01  4:47 ` Kevin Greiner
2003-12-01 11:39   ` Simon Josefsson
2003-12-01 15:56     ` Kevin Greiner
2003-12-01 16:46       ` Simon Josefsson
2003-12-01 17:30         ` Kevin Greiner
2003-12-01 19:45           ` Simon Josefsson
2003-12-01 20:35             ` Harry Putnam
2003-12-02  3:02               ` Wes Hardaker
2003-12-02  6:01           ` Kevin Greiner
2003-12-02 17:40             ` Simon Josefsson
2003-12-03 21:47             ` Harry Putnam
2003-12-03 22:14               ` Simon Josefsson
2003-12-04  1:50                 ` Harry Putnam
2003-12-04  2:29                   ` Simon Josefsson
2003-12-04  5:54                     ` Harry Putnam
2003-12-05  2:57                       ` Harry Putnam
2003-12-05  3:25                         ` Simon Josefsson
2003-12-05  3:54                           ` Harry Putnam
2003-12-05  4:13                             ` Simon Josefsson
2003-12-05 13:33                               ` Harry Putnam
2003-12-02 20:35     ` Simon Josefsson
2003-12-02 22:28       ` Kevin Greiner [this message]
2003-12-01 12:30   ` Harry Putnam

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