🚀 go-pugleaf

liblit@cs.psu.edu (Benjamin R. Liblit) writes:

   Consider the following sequence of actions:

	   1. Enter GNUS
	   2. Kill some groups via "C-k" or (gnus-Group-kill-group)
	   3. Save all buffers via "C-u C-x s" or (save-some-buffers 't)
	   4. Quit GNUS via "q" or (gnus-Group-exit)

   Since saving all buffers saved the buffer holding .newsrc, quitting
   GNUS does not update the .newsrc.el file.  No problem, right?  The
   next time GNUS starts up, it should realize that .newsrc.el is
   out-of-date, and just use .newsrc instead.

   Well, that seems to work for determining which articles I have read,
   but it fails to remember the groups that I killed in step 2.  They
   appear in the groups list as though I had never killed them.


The problem is probably that since .newsrc.el was never written, the killed
groups are not in gnus-killed-assoc, a variable defined in .newsrc.el.  As
a result, when .newsrc is read in, the missing groups are resubscribed to.

Try killing a group in the middle of your Newsgroup list and see if it
reappears at the beginning of the list.  (If you auto sort groups this
won't work.)  Alternately, kill a group with articles that have been read
and see if they become unread articles.

-Israel
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