Re: Gnus keybinding problem

[Andrew M. Bishop]

ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:

> > I use the topical format for the Group buffer and it looks like this.
> >
> > [Gnus]
> >    [mail] ...
> >    [news] ...
> >    [drafts] ...
> >
> > All experiments are performed with the cursor on the '[news]' line.
> >
> > 1) When I press g nothing much seems to happen.
> >
> > 2) When I press M-g then the NNTP server is checked for new news and
> >    the '[news]' topic is expanded just as if I had pressed L
> >    (gnus-group-list-all-groups).
> >
> > 3) When I do M-x gnus-group-get-new-news it reads from the NNTP
> >    server, but no update of the '[news]' topic is performed.
> >
> > 4) When I do M-x gnus-group-get-new-news-this-group nothing much
> >    happens (the same as if I press g).
> >
> >
> > The function should be the same whichever key it is bound to, but this
> > is not the case for this one.
> 
> In gnus-topic-mode, M-g is bound to gnus-topic-get-new-news-this-topic.  
> If you bind g to the function too, M-g and g should have the same behavior.

It doesn't have the same behaviour (listed in the examples 1 to 4
above).  This is why I raised the bug report.

-- 
Andrew.
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