Re: Why does Gnus article-moving act like a fetch of new news?

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com> writes:

> On 12 Apr 2021, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>> So maybe `gnus-activate-group' would be sufficient? Though it looks
>> like the number-of-articles update is happening at line 10271,
>> anyway.   Karl, would you be willing to patch the function to
>> replace `gnus-group-get-new-news-this-group' with
>> `gnus-activate-group', and run that for a while and see if anything
>> terrible happens? 
>
> Yes, I'll do that and set a bit to report back here in two weeks. I'm
> happy to be the Gnus test suite for a fortnight :-).

Hopefully things won't go too wrong :)