From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/64440 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Agent and gnus-group-clear-data Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 21:51:39 +0100 Message-ID: References: <200512040928.AA3014710@mail.ev1.net> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1174769781 11268 80.91.229.12 (24 Mar 2007 20:56:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 20:56:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: To: Kevin Greiner Original-X-From: ding-owner+M12963@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Mar 24 21:56:18 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HVDHe-0005SQ-AL for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 21:56:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HVDGh-0005Un-77; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 15:55:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HVDGf-0005UR-6B for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 15:55:17 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HVDGd-0005BQ-Qc for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 15:55:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.uni-ulm.de ([134.60.1.11]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1HVDGc-0005EW-00 for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 21:55:14 +0100 Original-Received: from bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de [134.60.10.123]) by mail.uni-ulm.de (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l2OKt992011702; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 21:55:10 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from localhost (bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de [134.60.10.123]) by bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99333129A2; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 21:55:09 +0100 (CET) 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-Followup-To: Kevin Greiner , In-Reply-To: (Reiner Steib's message of "Sun\, 04 Dec 2005 19\:44\:40 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) X-DCC-sonic.net-Metrics: arktur 1117; Body=2 Fuz1=2 Fuz2=2 X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:64440 Archived-At: [ 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. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/