Re: bug#38136: [PATCH] Make gnus-group-get-new-news a non blocking thread

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 18:34:11 +0100, Michael Albinus <address@hidden> said:

    Michael> Robert Pluim <address@hidden> writes:
    >> >> If you stick
    >> >>
    >> >> (debbugs-gnu-summary-mode 1)
    >> >>
    >> >> at the end of my function, you'll get 'E' 'C' and 'M-m' bindings,
    >> >> which do the same things as in 'debbugs-gnu'.
    >> 
    Michael> Do they find already the proper bug-id? Cool, this saves
    Michael> me work :-)
    >> 
    >> Kind of, they search for #\\([0-9]+\\) on the current line, and then
    >> from point-min, which will do the wrong thing if youʼre not on the
    >> first line of the bug thread. They also look for an appropriate text
    >> property, but thatʼs not set by 'gnus-read-ephemeral-bug-group'. I can
    >> look at adding that, but if you have a debbugs-gnu list of tagged
    >> bugs, you can visit each of them as a gnus group individually, so Iʼm
    >> not sure itʼs worth the effort.

    Michael> As you want. It's just convenience to send a control message 
immediately
    Michael> while you're reading a given message in the accumulated summary 
buffer.

Well, with debbug-gnu-summary-mode enabled you'll be able to do that,
you'll just have to be slightly more careful with those
commands.

Hmm, how about if I changed the detection code to do

- search current line
- search backwards
- search from (point-min)

That would change nothing for single-bug ephemeral groups.

Robert