bug#55834: 29.0.50; gnus: Z n in digest group does not catch up

bug#55834: 29.0.50; gnus: Z n in digest group does not catch up

[Sam Steingold]

`Z n` (gnus-summary-catchup-and-goto-next-group) in digest groups no
longer catches up the parent group.

Steps to reproduce:
in gnus, enter "gmane.comp.security.risks" on nntp:news.gwene.org and do
`C-d` (gnus-summary-enter-digest-group) on a the only unread message.
In the newly created digest *Summary* buffer, do `Z n` - this will catch
up the digest and move you to the next group.
However, the "gmane.comp.security.risks" group will remain un-caught-up,
i.e., the *Groups* buffer shows it as if it has unread messages.

Expected behavior (observed until about a month ago?):
`Z n` should catch up the digest and move on to the parent group; if
there are no unread message (my case) it should also catch this one up
and move to the next group with unread messages, marking this group in
*Groups* as empty (this is the regression: it did so before, but not
anymore).



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bug#55834: 29.0.50; gnus: Z n in digest group does not catch up

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org> writes:

> Expected behavior (observed until about a month ago?):
> `Z n` should catch up the digest and move on to the parent group; if
> there are no unread message (my case) it should also catch this one up
> and move to the next group with unread messages, marking this group in
> *Groups* as empty (this is the regression: it did so before, but not
> anymore).

Are you sure that it ever did this?  This command hasn't changed since
2007, and it's exceedingly simple:

(defun gnus-summary-catchup-and-goto-prev-group (&optional all)
  "Mark all articles in this group as read and select the previous group.
If given a prefix, mark all articles, unread as well as ticked, as
read."
  (interactive "P" gnus-summary-mode)
  (save-excursion
    (gnus-summary-catchup all))
  (gnus-summary-next-group nil nil t))

Any changed that seem relevant in Gnus:

| * a9f17ccce3..: Štěpán Němec 2021-05-28 ; Fix some doc typos and minor language issues
* | 7749ec6aaa..: Stefan Kangas 2022-05-20 Remove some ancient Emacs compat code
* | b2bce107b1..: Lars Ingebrigtsen 2022-05-24 Further audits of single quotes in Lisp doc strings
* | ed34cbeae7..: Lars Ingebrigtsen 2022-05-24 Audit symbol quoting in Lisp doc strings
* | 3e3ba233cf..: Stefan Kangas 2022-05-18 Remove some ancient Emacs compat code
* | b5621dbe2f..: Stefan Kangas 2022-05-14 Delete some compat code for very old Emacs versions
* | 3c5b332f1a..: Lars Ingebrigtsen 2022-05-12 Make message load eudc-capf more lazily
* | 620ac67355..: Alexander Adolf 2022-05-02 EUDC: Add completion-at-point support
* | 44db73d968..: Lars Ingebrigtsen 2022-05-10 Fix some quoting problems in defcustom :type
* | c57a6644ef..: Eric Abrahamsen 2022-05-06 Fix handling of IMAP search strings
* | 6d4cc2358b..: Eric Abrahamsen 2022-05-06 Don't force Gnus cache usage in nnvirtual
* | f1ab92bc23..: dickmao 2022-05-04 Transcription error
* | 2b50dbb1a5..: Eric Abrahamsen 2022-05-04 Remove bogus mode check from gnus topic update functions

So I'm wondering if you have some special code to deal with
digests/"parent" groups?

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bug#55834: 29.0.50; gnus: Z n in digest group does not catch up

[Sam Steingold]

> * Lars Ingebrigtsen <ynefv@tahf.bet> [2022-06-07 19:11:59 +0200]:
>
> Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Expected behavior (observed until about a month ago?):
>> `Z n` should catch up the digest and move on to the parent group; if
>> there are no unread message (my case) it should also catch this one up
>> and move to the next group with unread messages, marking this group in
>> *Groups* as empty (this is the regression: it did so before, but not
>> anymore).
>
> Are you sure that it ever did this?

Well, I think so - but I could be wrong.

> So I'm wondering if you have some special code to deal with
> digests/"parent" groups?

Nope.

Please consider this bug report as an RFE ;-)

Thank you!

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bug#55834: 29.0.50; gnus: Z n in digest group does not catch up

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org> writes:

>> So I'm wondering if you have some special code to deal with
>> digests/"parent" groups?
>
> Nope.
>
> Please consider this bug report as an RFE ;-)

I rather think that it's not a very useful thing, though.  As proposed,
the `Z n' command would do the same as `c' followed by `n'.  And that's
easier to type, so why not just type that instead?

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bug#55834: 29.0.50; gnus: Z n in digest group does not catch up

[Sam Steingold]

> * Lars Ingebrigtsen <ynefv@tahf.bet> [2022-06-09 12:33:38 +0200]:
>
> Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> So I'm wondering if you have some special code to deal with
>>> digests/"parent" groups?
>>
>> Nope.
>>
>> Please consider this bug report as an RFE ;-)
>
> I rather think that it's not a very useful thing, though.  As proposed,
> the `Z n' command would do the same as `c' followed by `n'.  And that's
> easier to type, so why not just type that instead?

1. In my case, it will be "c n n" (ISTR that the first "n" says "no next
   unread article" or something like that, and only the second goes to
   the next group - there might be an option that I set 15 years ago
   that does it) - but that hardly matters.

2. Going to the next group using "Z n" works in all other groups, why
   not here in digest?

At any rate, arguing about it is counterproductive.
No is no, let us move on.

Thank you for your explanations!

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bug#55834: 29.0.50; gnus: Z n in digest group does not catch up

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org> writes:

> At any rate, arguing about it is counterproductive.
> No is no, let us move on.

OK; closing this bug report, then.

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