Re: gnus-summary-normal-undownloaded-face

[Marcus Frings <iam-est-hora-surgere@despammed.com>]

Just for the archive: I solved both issues.

* Marcus Frings <iam-est-hora-surgere@despammed.com> wrote:
> * Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com> wrote:
>> Marcus Frings <iam-est-hora-surgere@despammed.com> writes:

>> This means that the agent is working as designed.  You might want to
>> consider reading the 'Agent Visuals' section of the manual if you
>> would like to override the default behavior.

> Ah, okay. Thanks for the hint! I'll do so and try to change it.

I customized my group parameters by setting

("^.*"
  (agent-disable-undownloaded-faces t))

which brings the old behaviour back to my Gnus.

>>> By the way, I discovered another problem with the new agent code. One
>>> newsgroup I read from my local inn shows 80000 articles in my group
>>> buffer when the agent is enabled. If I disable the agent the correct
>>> number (about 600) is shown.

>> Personally, I'd resolve this by using a negative number (perhaps -100)
>> for the article count when opening the group.  That should result in
>> the old agentized articles being displayed.  You can then mark them as
>> read.  Gnus will, upon being started the next time, show the 600
>> currently active articles.

> Well, somehow it didn't work. I used "-1000" and also tried "C-u -1000"
> and then entered the group and marked all articles as read but after
> restarting Gnus the group buffer still says 0/0/82000 (unread/ticked/all
> articles). Do you have another idea?

I deleted the files .agentview and .overview in the corresponding Agent
directory of this certain group. Now my article count in the group
buffer is correct again.

Regards,
Marcus
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