From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/61461 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Agent and gnus-group-clear-data Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 19:44:40 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Theoretical Physics, University of Ulm Message-ID: References: <200512040928.AA3014710@mail.ev1.net> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1133732620 5925 80.91.229.2 (4 Dec 2005 21:43:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 21:43:40 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+m9992@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Dec 04 22:43:39 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ej1dY-00035E-Dg for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2005 22:43:12 +0100 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 1Ej1dU-0002aK-00; Sun, 04 Dec 2005 15:43:08 -0600 Original-Received: from nas01.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.39]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1Ej1cj-0002a0-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 04 Dec 2005 15:42:21 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by nas01.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Ej1cc-0003Sb-JF for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 04 Dec 2005 15:42:21 -0600 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ej1cb-0002Jy-00 for ; Sun, 04 Dec 2005 22:42:13 +0100 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Ej1b0-0002GQ-8g for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2005 22:40:34 +0100 Original-Received: from bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de ([134.60.10.123]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 04 Dec 2005 22:40:34 +0100 Original-Received: from Reiner.Steib by bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 04 Dec 2005 22:40:34 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de X-Face: #vK]N[`vqjuod*|)'[iD7/"3AB-ApT%fmN"LWAg@oS7OesGv~)n[OBTLM#I="J'Y^-7I I/ps7o_'IK@#-Rs{::DZ@O8yS|fexe,XslY[:dNWOb~>?mC-&i_c)say:"\IpA.5U.b]'NY;Pks{lb h.+#6%DpZuaK3dcHB`Av3zc:r!C%~s0&m,tWj]&},qg.+0ww2gK%f!:GK|wMl.I!(voY*1"^li8"~B BNG)9LvPi?^DMR-GVDnZqhu*3Hi,+g=wFhI)BL6&u{EOVEHjVEVq~d?_}lMntWAc3(6?kftjc>_f>! g0wM(qPM$d5]^TT_Qyi&L?LGVG)SHN;Gk/,pkY9,~ Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:IzCzH+aZnskkzP1aavU91qYFtJ0= X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:61461 Archived-At: 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. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/