Re: yet more Gnus questions & problems

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>]

Joe Wells <jbw@cs.bu.edu> writes:

>   Lars> They're kept as (compressed) ranges in Gnus 5.2.
> 
> This changed from Gnus 5.1, right?

Yup.

>   >> 1. "M-g" doesn't work inside a digest group.
> 
>   Lars> What's it supposed to do?  nndoc groups aren't supposed to
>   Lars> change...
> 
> It seems to me that it should do the same as for any other group, i.e.,
> exit and reenter the group.  (I was trying to use this to test the effect
> of my hooks.)

In general, reentry into ephemeral groups is kinda tricky, so I've now
made Gnus check for that condition and beep the user if she tries to
do that.

> Suppose I want to fetch 5 series, each containing 25 articles.  Following
> your advice, I should either type "X u" five times (once for each series)
> or mark all 125 articles and then type "X u"?  The first method does not
> let me take a coffee break while Gnus is processing and the second
> requires me to mark lots of articles and fails if I miss one of them.
> 
> I would like to just mark 1 article from each series and type "X u" once
> and have Gnus figure out which other articles need to be fetched.

DO an `M P S' before `X u' to mark have Gnus process-mark all series
(in correct order) that have some articles process-marked.

>   Lars> Yup.  See `gnus-uu-grabbed-file-functions' if you want to change
>   Lars> that.
> 
> I looked at the documentation for that ("C-h v
> gnus-uu-grabbed-file-functions RET") and it wasn't very clear.  It would
> be nice if there was some setting of gnus-view-pseudo-asynchronously or
> gnus-view-pseudos that worked.

Those variables only affect pseudo article insertion/handling, not
actions taken while decoding.

>   Lars> Yup.  Foreign groups aren't kept in the killed list.  It's a
>   Lars> feature.  :-) No, really.
> 
> I'm confused by why you say this is a feature.  If I kill a mail group
> with "C-k", why shouldn't I be able to look at it with "A k"?

I know I had a very good reason for doing this, but I can't quite
remember it now.  Hm.  I think it had something to do with, uhm, group
creation and killed list stability.  Yes, that might have been it.  If
you don't save the killed list, it's re-created by looking at all
active groups and subtracting the (un)subscribed groups.  And that
would be inconsistant with having (some) killed foreign groups in the
list of killed groups.  Or something.

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