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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Garjola Dindi <garjola@garjola.net>
Cc: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Maybe a bug after df89d6d6dc429e638e425536d1c201b5373f2abd
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2019 01:50:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fth5e0ja.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y2ux8g1z.fsf@pc-117-162.ovh.com> (Garjola Dindi's message of "Sat, 28 Dec 2019 01:11:36 +0100")

Garjola Dindi <garjola@garjola.net> writes:

> I have a strange behaviour with recent versions of gnus (in emacs
> master and branch emacs-27).
>
> When I try to subscribe to a group in the *Browse server buffer*, all
> groups appear with the ’K’ mark and the subscribe command ’u’ does not
> subscribe (the ’K’ still appears and the group is not subscribed).

This was due to a recent change -- whenever a group changed level, it
would put a nil onto gnus-newsrc-alist, thereby making it invalid.

I've now pushed a fix for this to both emacs-27 and the trunk.

> Also, the .newsrc.eld file does not contain anything after the line
> showing the Gnus version number. This means that all existing
> subscriptions are lost after exiting emacs.

Geez!  I didn't see that problem -- I just got some extra nil entries at
the start of the gnus-newsrc-alist variable.  I hope there's a backup of
the file...

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-12-28  0:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-28  0:11 Garjola Dindi
2019-12-28  0:26 ` Adam Sjøgren via info-gnus-english
2019-12-28  0:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2019-12-28  1:17   ` Adam Sjøgren via info-gnus-english
2019-12-28  1:19     ` Adam Sjøgren via info-gnus-english
2019-12-28  1:29     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-12-28  7:42       ` Garjola Dindi

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