Re: (gnus) Allow gnus-retrieve-headers to return headers directly

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Matt Armstrong <matt@rfc20.org> writes:

> Madhu <enometh@meer.net> writes:
>
>> Hello, I believe gnus commit 20add1cd22f977 has introduced some unwanted
>> behaviour. Let me describe an example: Assume I have a Group buffer line
>> for a foreign group like:
>>
>> 269: nntp+news.aioe.org:alt.quotations
>>
>> I enter this group I arrange for it to ask me how many articles to
>> read: How many articles: Say I enter 20, I expect to see the last 20
>> messages (unread and ticked).
>>
>> In this case I have 16 unread messages and 4 ticked articles, so I'd
>> see a mode line in the Summary buffer like
>>
>> -UUU:@----F2  news:a.quotations [0] {16(+253) more}   89% L323   (Summary Plugged)  ---
>>
>> and the Summary buffer would display only 20 lines.
>>
>> However all ticked and cached articles are inserted in the Summary
>> buffer. So in this case I have some 400 Summary lines, while it should
>> have been only 20.  Can anyone confirm this regression?
>
> +cc Eric for comment (he might have missed that this was a question
> about his commit).

I've already reverted these changes! They're going to take a little more
thought, and a lot more testing, which I haven't found time to do yet.
Hopefully next weekend...

Thanks,
Eric