Re: Agent and gnus-group-clear-data

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Sun, Dec 04 2005, Kevin Greiner wrote:

> No.  I can see where people might want to clear marks (i.e. gnus-
> group-clear-data) without purging the content that they have 
> downloaded.  

Okay, I see.

> In this particular case, the old article numbers have been
> invalidated so Rahed needed to do both.
>
> There's a section in the manual on 'Changing Servers' that 
> mentions gnus-group-clear-data.  It needs to be updated to also 
> reference gnus-agent-flush-cache (to purge the old articles).  

Maybe `gnus-agent-flush-cache' should be interactive then?  Could you
add a doc string, too?

> Do you think we should add another section named 'Renumbering
> Articles' to discuss the sort of problem that Rahed encountered?

I'd suggest to add it to (info "(gnus)Changing Servers") first.  If it
becomes too long, we can still split it.

Bye, Reiner.
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