Re: retaining marked articles in summary buffer?

[Sivaram Neelakantan]

On Mon, Feb 27 2017,Kevin Brubeck Unhammer wrote:


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>> if it's set to t (gnus-use-cache), won't all articles be cached?  I
>> only want to do this for interesting articles
>
> No, see Info gnus:
>
>      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’).  
>
> (That probably shouldn've been mentioned in the docstring for
> gnus-use-cache, which is rather misleading: "use the cache to the full
> extent of the law" sounds like "cache everything").
>

so setting cache to t and marking with it ! will keep the article around
forever ignoring the expiry settings too, right?

sivaram
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