From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/49351 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Greiner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus lies about downloaded state Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 10:42:53 -0600 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <844r8biqtg.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <84k7h6h50w.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <84ptqyv1lb.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <844r867ekk.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> 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 1042994594 31890 80.91.224.249 (19 Jan 2003 16:43:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 16:43:14 +0000 (UTC) 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 18aIXP-0008I8-00 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 17:43:12 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18aIXa-0008Hq-00; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 10:43:22 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 19 Jan 2003 10:44:18 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (sclp3.sclp.com [66.230.238.2]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA21065 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 10:44:05 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 70687 invoked by alias); 19 Jan 2003 16:43:04 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 70682 invoked from network); 19 Jan 2003 16:43:04 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by 66.230.238.6 with SMTP; 19 Jan 2003 16:43:04 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18aIgJ-00020M-00 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 17:52:23 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.64.160.6 Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1042995143 7709 198.64.160.6 (19 Jan 2003 16:52:23 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Jan 2003 16:52:23 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.090013 (Oort Gnus v0.13) Emacs/21.2 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600) Cancel-Lock: sha1:F8/rQGrSPhkNsfLONGRyFDUp4mc= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:49351 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:49351 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