Re: retaining marked articles in summary buffer?

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Enrico Schumann <es@enricoschumann.net> writes:

> 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.

Right, I just looked through the code and it won't enter either * or !
articles into the cache when `gnus-use-cache' is 'passive. I guess
you could set `gnus-use-cache' to t and see what happens. There are
plenty of other knobs to twiddle to reduce the scope of articles that
are cached.

Eric