Re: Why does Gnus article-moving act like a fetch of new news?

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com> writes:

> In lisp/gnus/gnus-sum.el, at the end of `gnus-summary-move-article',
> there is this code:
>
>    ;; Re-activate all groups that have been moved to.
>       (with-current-buffer gnus-group-buffer       (let
>       ((gnus-group-marked to-groups))
>       (gnus-group-get-new-news-this-group nil t))) I'm no expert in
>       this area of the code, but the above seems to conflate two
>      different things:
>
> a) It tells the destination group(s) that a new article has arrived,
> and    I guess that in turn "activates" the group?  (My understanding
> of activation in Gnus is somewhat fuzzy.)

The code has been in there since the command was added (in 1997),
apparently...  I think it's just supposed to update the number of
articles in the group buffer?

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