Re: Gnus lies about downloaded state

[Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com>]

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

> I'm afraid I kinda lost track about the situation now.  I still see
> problems with the indication of the downloaded state, but I have more
> data.  In this group, I have some ticked (and thus, cached) articles,
> and there are some old articles that I have marked as unread with
> M-u.  And finally, there are unseen articles (marked with ".").  They
> are marked as downloaded because I did `J s' after `g'.
>
> In this case, the M-u'd articles are marked as not downloaded.
> Now I read the new message and then hit M-g in the group.
> Then the M-u'd messages are correctly marked as downloaded: I see
> the + for %O and the color is the default color.
>
> I get the feeling that this is not about corruption of the state that
> the agent keeps.  Instead, it seems that the summary buffer display
> interprets the data wrongly.  But it is somewhat strange that the
> presence of "." (unseen?) articles has effect on that interpretation.
>
> FWIW, ticked (and thus, cached) articles are also always shown in the
> "undownloaded" face and with %O=-.


OK, have you applied my patch to gnus-sum?  That patch will not fix
the face being displayed.  However, it WILL fix a major problem with
updating the downloaded mark.  I'm reluctant to check-in this patch
because it is in such a basic function.  My concern is that other
routines may actually depend on the bug's existance :(.

Kevin