From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/51510 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Greiner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Some agent whining (again) Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 19:02:58 -0500 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1050451395 23109 80.91.224.249 (16 Apr 2003 00:03:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 00:03:15 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M54@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Apr 16 02:03:14 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 195aNt-0005yv-00 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2003 02:02:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 195aOG-0004TT-00; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 19:03:04 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 195aOC-0004TO-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 19:03:00 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 35443 invoked by alias); 16 Apr 2003 00:03:00 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 35438 invoked from network); 16 Apr 2003 00:03:00 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 16 Apr 2003 00:03:00 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 195aPZ-0006ph-00 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2003 02:04:25 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 51 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: manchester-suites-iaf1047853.cust-rtr.ameritech.net Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1050451465 26268 68.23.64.46 (16 Apr 2003 00:04:25 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Apr 2003 00:04:25 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.090019 (Oort Gnus v0.19) Emacs/21.2 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NdHPJt9lHbQn5QUDUEMcq9LDflM= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:51510 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:51510 Bjørn Mork writes: > This may be unjustified, and basically my own fault, but I need to let > it out anyway... > > I am sitting here offline, like I do a few times a year. And facing > the same problem I feel I have each and every time: I have (stupidly?) > kept updating to the latest and greatest CVS Gnus to get all the new > and shiny features, and somehow along the way it seems that the agent > has stopped working. Of course, as usual I have also been stupid > enough not to test it before going offline. > > This time it seems that the default category somehow mysteriously has > changed predicate from short to false. The change was an accident. The predicate for every new category EXCEPT for 'default' is false. The predicate for the 'default' category has been changed back to short. However, you won't notice it unless you delete your agent/lib/categories file again. If you don't want to do that, you'll have to edit the predicate in the category. > Well, that's easy to change but > is breaking existing configurations really necessary? Absolutely. How else can we gain your appreciation except to patch the errors that we previously introduced :). > And how much > configuraton is an user expected to do just to use Agent? I do believe that configurability is a cornerstone of gnus. That being said, the default should match the documentation. >And why > can't I find this change mentioned in GNUS-NEWS? The default category is stored, along with all other agent categories, in agent/lib/categories. Those categories override the internal default so most people, including myself, didn't trigger the branch of the code that you apparently traversed. > I'm finished now. Pleas excuse the noise. No problem. Please accept the response with the appropriate jest. BTW, the patch has been checked in. Kevin