Subject: bug#8991: closed (Re: bug#8991: gnus-request-expire-articles is undocumented)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 22:35:02 +0000

Your bug report

#8991: gnus-request-expire-articles is undocumented

which was filed against the gnus package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#8991: gnus-request-expire-articles is undocumented
From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
To: Dave Abrahams <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:34:34 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Dave Abrahams <[email-masked]> writes:

>     ,----
>     |    Note that other functions, e.g. `gnus-request-expire-articles',
>     | might run `gnus-agent-expire' for you to keep the agent synchronized
>     | with the group.
>     `----

I've now removed the mention of this function.

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Subject: gnus-request-expire-articles is undocumented
From: Dave Abrahams <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked] (The Gnus Bugfixing Girls + Boys)
Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2011 19:30:10 -0400
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Package: gnus
Version: 5.110018
No Gnus v0.18
GNU Emacs 23.3.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.35)
 of 2011-03-09 on black.porkrind.org
200 news.gmane.org InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.5.1 ready (posting ok)
101 Capability list:
VERSION 2
IMPLEMENTATION INN 2.5.1
AUTHINFO USER
HDR
LIST ACTIVE ACTIVE.TIMES DISTRIB.PATS HEADERS NEWSGROUPS OVERVIEW.FMT
OVER
POST
READER
STARTTLS
.

[[info:gnus#Agent Expiry]] sez:

    ,----
    |    Note that other functions, e.g. `gnus-request-expire-articles',
    | might run `gnus-agent-expire' for you to keep the agent synchronized
    | with the group.
    `----

but there's no documentation on gnus-request-expire-articles that I can
find.  IMO It either should be documented as a user-facing-function or,
if it's an implementation detail, not mentioned in the documentation.

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