Re: yet more Gnus questions & problems

[Joe Wells <jbw@cs.bu.edu>]

>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

  >> 4. This is a question about the representation of newsgroup
  >> information in memory.  Are all marks (tick, dormant, reply,
  >> expirable, etc.) kept as uncompressed lists in gnus-newsrc-alist?

  Lars> They're kept as (compressed) ranges in Gnus 5.2.

This changed from Gnus 5.1, right?  When I wrote the code to import the VM
repled marks for Gnus 5.1, I tried to use a compressed range but Gnus
raised an error on this.

  >> 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.)

  >> 3. In summary buffer, if one #-marks part 1 of 2 of a uuencoded
  >> thingy, then "X u" doesn't fetch both parts.  It seems like it
  >> should.

  Lars> No -- when you process-mark an article, `X u' should just fetch
  Lars> that article.  If you want to fetch a series, don't use `#' first
  Lars> -- just use `X u' on one of the articles in the series.

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.

  >> 4. In summary buffer, marking multiple articles with # and then doing
  >> "X v u" seems to decode all of them before starting the viewer for
  >> any of them.

  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.

  >> 5. In group buffer, "A k" does not display killed mail groups.  It
  >> only shows killed groups from the default nntp server.

  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"?

-- 
Joe Wells <jbw@cs.bu.edu>