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Re: retaining marked articles in summary buffer?
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Eric S Fraga |
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Re: retaining marked articles in summary buffer? |
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Thu, 2 Mar 2017 15:13:06 +0000 |
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On Thursday, 2 Mar 2017 at 14:49, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
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>> So what does the 'passive setting accomplish?
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> It turns off all automatic caching making it an entirely manual process.
> The result is that * saves the article essentially forever (by entering
> it into the cache) and M-* removes is from the cache (usually deleting
> in the process).
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> The manual calls this "Persistent Articles" and it's described in the
> section after "Article Caching". I found this a bit confusing. I'd
> have called that setting 'manual' rather than 'passive'.
Ah, okay, thanks! Yes, manual may be better than passive but passive
now makes sense.
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Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D)
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