From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/58654 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Greiner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: HEADS UP! Unplugged (agent) marks handling changed Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 20:48:22 -0500 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1096508921 1325 80.91.229.6 (30 Sep 2004 01:48:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 01:48:41 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M7192@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Sep 30 03:48:34 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13] ident=mail) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CCq3e-0001GF-00 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 03:48:34 +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 1CCq3a-0008Ig-00; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 20:48:30 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1CCq3W-0008Ib-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 20:48:26 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1CCq3W-000357-JQ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 20:48:26 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (quimby.gnus.org [80.91.224.244]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06C793A003F for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 20:48:24 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CCq3T-0006fU-00 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 03:48:23 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 46 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-69-33-218-34.chi.megapath.net Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1096508903 24812 69.33.218.34 (30 Sep 2004 01:48:23 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 01:48:23 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ekizdz/D7g7Y8tQCcAGeUdVSIcU= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58654 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58654 Ralf Angeli writes: > * Kevin Greiner (2004-09-28) writes: > >> Ralf Angeli writes: >> >>> * Kevin Greiner (2004-09-27) writes: >>> >>>> Great work. It looks like the problem is in the gnus-server-to-method >>>> call in gnus-agent-synchronize-group-flags. Can you add a (debug) >>>> expression to gnus-agent-synchronize-group-flags then try to >>>> synchronize flags? What I'm trying to understand is why >>>> gnus-server-to-method returned nil when passed "news.individual.net" >>>> as an argument. >>> >>> `(gnus-server-to-method "news.individual.net")' doesn't return nil, it >>> returns `("news.individual.net" nntp "news.individual.net")': > [...] >> Hmmm... I was actually interested in com.text.tex which you reported >> on 25 Sept as returning null. > > Then you probably mean, why `gnus-get-info' returns nil. > > That's because `(intern-soft "comp.text.tex" gnus-newsrc-hashtb)' > returns nil. `gnus-newsrc-hashtb' looks like > > [[...] 0 0 0 0 0 0 nntp+news\.individual\.net:comp\.text\.tex 0 [...]] > > So it seems that "comp.text.tex" doesn't match this. > > The variable `gnus-newsrc-alist' which is used to build > `gnus-newsrc-hashtb' is set via the `(gnus-load ding-file)' call in > the function `gnus-read-newsrc-el-file'. (BTW, there is a variable > `gnus-newsrc-assoc' let-bound in this function which is never set, so > this seems a bit useless.) And in ~/.newsrc.eld the groups are > specified in the long form "nntp+news.individual.net:de.comp.text.tex". > > That means either the `gnus-get-info' call has to use the long form as > its argument or the groups in the ~/.newsrc.eld file have to be > specified with their short forms. The problem is that gnus-get-info isn't consistent. Sometimes it needs the full name other times the 'real' name. I've updated yet again, please give it a try. Kevin