From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
Cc: Emacs Development <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Why does Gnus article-moving act like a fetch of new news?
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2021 18:05:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wnt824dq.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lf9rruzl.fsf@red-bean.com> (Karl Fogel's message of "Fri, 09 Apr 2021 16:47:10 -0500")
Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com> writes:
> In lisp/gnus/gnus-sum.el, at the end of `gnus-summary-move-article',
> there is this code:
>
> ;; Re-activate all groups that have been moved to.
> (with-current-buffer gnus-group-buffer (let
> ((gnus-group-marked to-groups))
> (gnus-group-get-new-news-this-group nil t))) I'm no expert in
> this area of the code, but the above seems to conflate two
> different things:
>
> a) It tells the destination group(s) that a new article has arrived,
> and I guess that in turn "activates" the group? (My understanding
> of activation in Gnus is somewhat fuzzy.)
The code has been in there since the command was added (in 1997),
apparently... I think it's just supposed to update the number of
articles in the group buffer?
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-11 16:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-09 21:47 Why does Gnus article-moving act like a fetch of new news? Karl Fogel
2021-04-10 4:11 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-04-10 4:58 ` Karl Fogel
2021-04-10 5:29 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-04-10 8:29 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-04-10 13:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-10 22:00 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-04-11 6:02 ` Karl Fogel
2021-04-11 16:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-04-12 17:05 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-04-12 17:56 ` Karl Fogel
2021-04-12 18:26 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-04-13 20:25 ` Karl Fogel
2021-04-13 21:59 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-04-14 3:27 ` Karl Fogel
2021-04-25 17:37 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-03 20:52 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-05-03 20:53 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-05-05 23:21 ` Karl Fogel
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