bug#43356: 27.1; Gnus: Selected articles are unavoidably entered into the agent cache in an agentized group (while plugged)

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Ozhap <ozhap@vollbio.de> writes:

> Apparently, this has been brought about (intentionally) by commit
> f3b146e943cd733fb716c75048f24b73826e5f30 in response to what appears
> to be an erroneous feature-request - bug#8502 [1]. The requested
> feature already existed, as documented in the manual sections
> 'Choosing Variables' & 'Agent Caveats', the latter reading thus:
>
> “If I read an article while plugged, do they get entered into the
> Agent?”
>
>      *No*. If you want this behavior, add
>      ‘gnus-agent-fetch-selected-article’ to
>      ‘gnus-select-article-hook’.
>
> In my limited understanding, the fix is simple: revert the commit
> (except for 2 of its unrelated hunks - of gnus-html.el & shr.el).

Thanks for the thorough and clear analysis.

I've now reverted the parts from that commit that were relevant to this
issue.

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