Re: I lied (Was: Group-specific gnus-auto-select-next?)
Lloyd Zusman <ljz <at> asfast.com>
2001-10-01 10:27:30 GMT
Kai.Grossjohann <at> CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> Lloyd Zusman <ljz <at> asfast.com> writes:
>
>> What follows at the end of this message is the code for
>> `gnus-summary-read-group'. Notice the 10th line of that function,
>> where `gnus-auto-select-next' is set to nil in the `let' block. This
>> causes any and all changes to the value of `gnus-auto-select-next'
>> from within `gnus-summary-read-group-1' to get undone after that
>> function returns.
>
> This seems to be a bad thing, and IWBNI some other way could be
> devised to achieve the same effect.
>
> Why is gnus-auto-select-next bound to nil, anyway?
I'm going to make a wild guess as to why: perhaps it's set to nil to
avoid problems if the group being read by `gnus-summary-read-group' is
empty at the time that function is being invoked.
But whatever the case, I agree with you that there probably would be
other ways to achieve the intended effect of the temporary binding of
`gnus-auto-select-next' to nil, whatever that intended effect might
be.
> Thanks for being willing to work on this.
Tonight or tomorrow I'll experiment with this routine, to see if I can
determine the intention of binding `gnus-auto-select-next' to nil, and
if so, then to see if I can devise a different way to achieve this
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