From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/3072 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrew Nesbit Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Argh - my groups are gone Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 22:36:46 +1000 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138669290 17531 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:01:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:01:30 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:31:39 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!news.powertech.no!news.eunet.no!uio.no!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!newsfeed.pacific.net.au!spool01.syd.optusnet.com.au!spool.optusnet.com.au!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:7/IZey1mDneUbEgtbrZMfUbsn3A= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 210.49.221.203 Original-X-Trace: 1065702999 15134 210.49.221.203 Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:3213 Original-Lines: 35 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 3213 Tue Jan 17 17:31:39 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:3072 Archived-At: Vagn Johansen writes: > Vagn Johansen writes: > >> I was cleaning up my zombie groups ("A z") and was trying to use >> gnus-group-mark-regexp ("M r"). That did not work; nothing was >> selected. So I did of lot of C-k and now ALL my groups are gone >> (nnml, nntp+, etc). >> >> Can I get them back somehow. They seem to be in gnus-killed-list. Believe it or not, but the same thing happened to me the other day, by doing the same sequence of operations. I was also trying to kill all my zombie groups. I was able to get my groups back by resubscribing, but their marks were completely messed up. > I investigated a little further and discovered some weird behaviour > (bug?) of "M r". > > Suppose I type "A z" and see only alt.* groups. If I then type > > M r alt RET > > nothing apparently happens. Visually nothing is changed. If i type "L" i > see my currently subscribed alt.* groups (at level 3) marked with a # char! > > It is kinda of the reverse of what I expected. It's very poorly documented, and hence, very dangerous. I'm unable to ascertain the intended behaviour of `M r' (short of reading the source), but its current behaviour is completely whacked. Andrew.