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From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Marks added in nnir search buffers don't propagate to the actual groups?
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2018 09:36:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xuu6h8g0kyyi.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h8g0ffhc.fsf@hillenius.net>

On Thursday, 29 Nov 2018 at 09:35, Gijs Hillenius wrote:
> On 28 November 2018 11:05 Eric Abrahamsen, wrote:
>
>> Can anyone confirm that changes to marks made in an nnir search buffer
>> don't propagate to the real articles? Eg you search for an article,
>> remove its read mark, and then expect to find it unread in the "real"
>> underlying group. Or you tick it, or whatever.
>>
>> This is something I noticed ages ago, but sort of figured it was a
>> problem in my config, but now I've looked into it and so far as I can
>> tell this is just the way it works.
>
> This is also how I understand Gnus. I nearly automatically do A W
> gnus-warp-to-article to set or remove tickmarks

Is it also the case generally for virtual groups?  Seems like it is but
it would good if it were not.  I would like marks to propagate to the
actual email wherever it might lie.
-- 
Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50 & org 9.1.13 on Debian 9.5




  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-29  9:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-28 19:05 Eric Abrahamsen
2018-11-29  8:35 ` Gijs Hillenius
2018-11-29  9:36   ` Eric S Fraga [this message]
2018-11-29 17:41     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-11-29 20:35       ` Eric S Fraga

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