Re: Update topic unread counts on group exit?

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Adam Sjøgren <asjo@koldfront.dk> writes:

> Adam writes:
>
>> Eric writes:
>>
>>> It looks to me like you could add a function to
>>> `gnus-summary-exit-hook', which calls
>>> `gnus-topic-update-topics-containing-group' on the value of
>>> `gnus-newsgroup-name'. At that stage in summary exit,
>>> `gnus-newsgroup-name' won't have been cleared yet, so it should still
>>> hold the name of the group you're coming out of.
>
> [...]
>
>> I will see if I can get your suggestion going after dinner :-)
>
> This is what I did:
>
>     (defun asjo-update-topics ()
>       (gnus-topic-update-topics-containing-group gnus-newsgroup-name))
>
>     (add-hook 'gnus-summary-exit-hook 'asjo-update-topics)
>
> But simpler than my hack - but nothing is updated.
>
> When I edebug-defun it, I can see that gnus-newsgroup-name is indeed the
> full newsgroup name, e.g. "nntp+gm:gmane.emacs.gnus.user", but the topic
> counts aren't updated.

And if I'd looked at that function before recommending it, I would have
immediately seen that it's buggy! That and `gnus-topic-update-topic'
check to see if the major-mode is 'gnus-topic-mode, which of course it
never is, because gnus-topic-mode is a minor mode.

In fact, gnus-topic.el already thinks it's doing what you want --
updating topic lines on group exit -- but because of the bug in
`gnus-topic-update-topic', the update never happens.

Lars added that major-mode check as part of a larger commit last year, I
have to assume it was a mistake. I'll remove the checks now.

Eric