Re: Agent and gnus-group-clear-data

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

[ I came across this old thread ...]

On Sun, Dec 04 2005, Reiner Steib wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 04 2005, Kevin Greiner wrote:

[shouldn't `gnus-group-clear-data' also clear the agent data?]
>> 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.

Could someone work on this, please?

Bye, Reiner.
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