Re: Rendering on Bm

[Karl Kleinpaste <karl@charcoal.com>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> All the commands that select an article (and `B m' is one of them)
> renders the article.  I don't think it would be appropriate to
> special-case `B m' here.

Considering that the entire `B' keymap consists of actions involving
shuffling things around in the backend (i.e. the filesystem) rather
than the frontend (i.e. my eyeballs)...well, while it may currently
constitute a special case, I don't see any explanation for (what I
perceive as) the failure mode of process-marking 150 messages followed
by `B m' followed by Gnus choking by observing for my "benefit" the
lack of a known PGP key for the signed content therein.  I'm moving
the articles Elsewhere -- why should I care about _anything_ having to do
with rendering, least of all the complicated nightmare of invoking PGP?

I've actually developed the tendency to use a keyboard macro when
needing to `B m': The macro begins with `C-u g', so that the article
is pre-rendered in the vacuous sense, followed by `B m' to send it
where it belongs.  Being pre-rendered, Gnus doesn't make any further
efforts involving heavyweight foo like PGP.  The problem is that I
don't have a way to make a keyboard macro interact with process marks.