Re: Threading wrong if showing undownloaded articles

[Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com>]

kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com> writes:
>
>> kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>>
>>> As you can see, the \--\ markers have moved right for the messages
>>> that were selected for display.  Also, the threads aren't shown
>>> correctly -- after doing J u on that group and reentering I see
>>> proper thread trees.
>>>
>>> (The \--\ characters come from %B in gnus-summary-line-format.)
>>
>> There is so little agent code exposed via the summary that I can't see
>> how the agent is the direct cause of this problem.
>
> I believe that :-)
>
>> Are you using gnus-agent-fetch-selected-article to download these
>> articles?  If so, the summary code redrew the lines to change the -
>> to + in column 1 and change the line's color.  It's possible that
>> the summary didn't position the fields correctly in the updated
>> line.
>
> What I did was to exit the group with q, then did J u on that group
> in the Group buffer, then I entered the group again.
>
>> You might this test function.
>> (defun test1 (article)
>>   (gnus-summary-goto-subject article nil t)
>>   (gnus-summary-update-article-line
>>         article
>> 	 (gnus-summary-article-header article)))
>>
>> The next time you notice that downloaded articles are misaligned, use
>> this function to force specified articles to update without calling
>> the agent.  In particular, try it on the article following the
>> incorrectly displayed articles.
>
> Okay.
>
> (Not sure that there is an article followed the incorrectly displayed
> ones: the `wrong' ones are the undownloaded ones, and usually the
> undownloaded ones will be last.  Normally I do `g J s' to get new
> news.  Only sometimes I too impatient and enter groups after `g'.)
>

Right, the function that I provided should be able to refresh the
undownloaded articles.  I suspect that the data structures used by the
summary are being corrupted.  I'd like you to find out if that is
true.

Kevin