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29.0.50; Moving between nnselect groups sometimes fails to save marks

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From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>
To: 56592-close <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: cohen <at> bu.edu
Subject: Re: 29.0.50; Moving between nnselect groups sometimes fails to save
 marks
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2023 13:22:41 -0700

Hello,

On Fri 15 Jul 2022 at 11:43PM -07, Sean Whitton wrote:

> You need a notmuch setup to reproduce this, though maybe other
> gnus-search backends would show it too.  Create two nnselect groups
> where the query for the second includes some of the messages in the
> first group.  This is what I am using:
>
>     first group, nnselect:Weekday, has query
>       "to:spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name or to:spwhitton <at> arizona.edu"
>
>     second group, nnselect:Weekend, has query
>       "to:spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name".
>
> So, messages addressed to spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name appear in both.
> Ensure there are unread messages addressed to spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name.
> Enter the first group, mark one of those messages addressed to
> spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name as read.  Go to the last message, use 'n n' to
> move to the next unread group.
>
> The message that was marked as read reappears, unread, in the second
> group.  If you quit to the group buffer and reenter the first group,
> it's unread again there.

I have been discussing this with Andrew Cohen and believe, at least for
now, that it's not a bug: the user is required to set the
nnselect-regenerate group parameter non-nil in this sort of case.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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