Re: (gnus) Allow gnus-retrieve-headers to return headers directly

[Matt Armstrong]

Madhu <enometh@meer.net> writes:

> Hello, I believe gnus commit 20add1cd22f977 has introduced some unwanted
> behaviour. Let me describe an example: Assume I have a Group buffer line
> for a foreign group like:
>
> 269: nntp+news.aioe.org:alt.quotations
>
> I enter this group I arrange for it to ask me how many articles to
> read: How many articles: Say I enter 20, I expect to see the last 20
> messages (unread and ticked).
>
> In this case I have 16 unread messages and 4 ticked articles, so I'd
> see a mode line in the Summary buffer like
>
> -UUU:@----F2  news:a.quotations [0] {16(+253) more}   89% L323   (Summary 
> Plugged)  ---
>
> and the Summary buffer would display only 20 lines.
>
> However all ticked and cached articles are inserted in the Summary
> buffer. So in this case I have some 400 Summary lines, while it should
> have been only 20.  Can anyone confirm this regression?

+cc Eric for comment (he might have missed that this was a question
about his commit).