Re: retaining marked articles in summary buffer?

[Enrico Schumann]

On Sun, 26 Feb 2017, Eric Abrahamsen writes:

> Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Sun, Feb 26 2017,Enrico Schumann wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 26 Feb 2017, Adam Sjøgren writes:
>>
>> [snipped 20 lines]
>>
>>> When 'gnus-use-cache' is t, ticking (!) will also copy the
>>> article to the cache. See http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_42.html .
>>>
>>
>> if it's set to t (gnus-use-cache), won't all articles be cached?  I
>> only want to do this for interesting articles
>
> Its default value, the symbol 'passive, should do what you want: only
> cache articles when you tell it to, with * or !.

Hm, I've just tested this, and with gnus-use-cache set
to 'passive, Gnus does *not* cache articles that I tick
with '!'. It may well be, as always, that I have
something in my .gnus.el that prevents this :-) But it
is also in line with the docs
(http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_42.html):

,----
| To turn caching on, set gnus-use-cache to t. By
| default, all articles ticked or marked as dormant
| will then be copied over to your local cache
| (gnus-cache-directory). 
`----

So only 'articles ticked or marked as dormant' are
copied to the cache, not all articles.


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Enrico Schumann
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