bug#46116: Acknowledgement (28.0.50; Ticking articles fails on Emacs 28 pgtk build)

[Jonathan Corbet]

On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 09:29:30 +0000
Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org> wrote:

> > So... Through the process of brute-force debugging, I found that simply
> > pulling up a copy of gnus-sum.el and doing an eval-defun on
> > gnus-summary-goto-subject makes the problem mysteriously go away.  This,
> > in turn, makes me suspect that the native compilation is the real problem,
> > and this is not a gnus issue at all.  Will try to pursue further;
> > apologies for wasting your time.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > jon  
> 
> This is a possible miscommunication.  Could you report the input of the
> function when the miss-behave is observed? 

Trying to determine that was how I found the workaround - putting in a
(message) call made the problem go away.  The call, though, is from
gnus-summary-mark-article:

>       (when (gnus-summary-goto-subject article nil t)
>         (let ((inhibit-read-only t))
>           (gnus-summary-show-thread)
>           ;; Fix the mark.
>           (gnus-summary-update-mark mark 'unread)
>           t))))))

I was able to examine the arguments before the call; "article" is an
integer article number, as expected.

Thanks,

jon