Re: broken gnus-summary-refer-thread ? in gnus v5.13

[Wolfgang Jenkner]

On Tue, Jul 03 2012, Gijs Hillenius wrote:

> On  3 Jul 2012, Wolfgang Jenkner wrote:
>
> Me describing that gnus-summary-refer-thread is buggered
>
> [...]
>
>> I think that's
>>
>> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=11824
>>
>> Please try the (trivial) patch given there.
>
> Ow, thanks!
>
>
> Immediately copied nnir.el.gz to a local dir, added  " 'virtual " as per patch
>
>    (gnus-declare-backend "nnir" 'mail 'virtual)
>
> byte-compiled and loaded that. But it does not fix it, here,
> unfortunately.

The function `gnus-declare-backend' simply adds an entry to the end of
`gnus-valid-select-methods' (destructively).  So, if you didn't restart
emacs, this variable probably has two entries now whose car is "nnir",
and the old one (without `virtual') is still found first.

Wolfgang