From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/60310 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Greiner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus forgets marks if switching from unplugged to plugged - SOLUTION (?) Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 13:25:18 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1116095852 24479 80.91.229.2 (14 May 2005 18:37:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 18:37:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M8838@lists.math.uh.edu Sat May 14 20:37:30 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DX1Vr-0006Ml-8v for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 14 May 2005 20:37:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1DX1KK-00042W-00; Sat, 14 May 2005 13:25:28 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1DX1KE-00042R-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 14 May 2005 13:25:22 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1DX1K9-0000rI-UF for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 14 May 2005 13:25:18 -0500 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1DX1K9-0007ci-00 for ; Sat, 14 May 2005 20:25:17 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 39 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup-216-12-206-135.ev1.net Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1116095116 29306 216.12.206.135 (14 May 2005 18:25:16 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 18:25:16 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:v8uv8ZxWI+O4Uu57tZqMTfkcU6w= X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60310 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60310 Burkhard Perkens-Golomb writes: > On 5 Mai 2005, Burkhard Perkens-Golomb wrote: > >> On 5 Mai 2005, Kevin Greiner wrote: >> >>> Burkhard Perkens-Golomb writes: >>> >>>> Hi! >>>> >>>> The problem: >>>> >>>> I download articles while Gnus is in plugged state. I switch to >>>> unplugged state, read and mark articles while Gnus is unplugged. I >>>> switch back to plugged and press "g" in the group buffer. I see >>>> some messages "Updating marks for ...done" in the >>>> minibuffer. When the updating is finished all marks (read, ticked, >>>> dormant) I did in the unplugged state are lost :-( . >>>> >>>> I'm working with No Gnus 0.3 and GNU Emacs 21.3.1 >>>> (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600). >>> >>> What backend are you using? nntp, nnimap? >> >> I'm using nntp. >> >> By the way marks done in plugged state stay forever, only marks done >> in unplugged state get lost. > > I've found a simple way to get the expected behaviour: I've set the > variable gnus-agent-synchronize-flags to t (previously it was > nil). From the docs I expected the variable to be relevant for > agentized IMAP groups only. But gnus-agent-synchronize-flags seems to > be used for nntp groups too. Was it changed sometime ago? If so the > docs should be changed. Excellent news. I'll update the manual. Kevin