bug#62845: 29.0.90; nntp-with-open-group-function kills current buffer on timeout

[Andreas Schwab]

On Mai 06 2023, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:

> But doesn't the call to `nntp-possibly-change-group' at nntp.el:600
> re-create the connection, including re-initializing the
> nntp-server-buffer, so that when the guts of
> `nntp-finish-retrieve-group-infos' are run for the second time, the new
> server buffer is found?

You cannot recreate a buffer once it is killed.  You can create a new
buffer, but it will always be a different buffer.

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