Re: Canonical list of marks with and without gnus-agent

[Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com>]

Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:

> Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com> writes:
>
>> Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:
>>
>>> Is there any documentation that has in one, single location the
>>> canonical list of marks that are defined when using gnus-agent, and when
>>> not using gnus-agent?
>>>
>>> Ideally, I'm looking for a 3-column list something like this:
>>>
>>>                      character used     character used            
>>>   Gnus mark name     with gnus-agent    without gnus-agent
>>
>> As far as I know, there are NO marks that change characters depending
>> upon use of the agent.
>>
>> The agent uses gnus-undownloaded-mark (-), gnus-downloaded-mark (+),
>> and gnus-downloadable-mark (%).  The two downloaded marks are stored
>> separately and displayed using their own format specifier (at least in
>> the later 5.9 series and now in 5.10) so I doubt that their of much
>> interest to you.  The gnus-downloadable-mark is the only one that
>> interacts with the other marks (i.e. ticked, read, etc).  
>
> Well, I'm glad that the marks are mostly the same between agent and
> non-agent mode.
>
> And yes, I've noticed that the '%' mark does indeed interact with
> ticked, read, etc.  I have some custom elisp that makes use of mark
> settings (ticked, read, etc.), and since I started agentizing, this code
> has broken.  That's what prompted me to post the previous message.
>
> So now I see that I need to understand this interaction between
> gnus-downloadable-mark and the others, but nothing in the docs talks
> about this interaction.
>
> Could someone either describe this interaction, or else point me to the
> location of an explanation?
>

All of the code is in gnus-sum.el but I don't think that will help.  The
downloadable mark is a manual mark.  If you haven't set it, it won't
be interferring with your code.  It might be better to simply post
your function then ask for comments.

Kevin