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authorMiles Bader <miles@gnu.org>2007-08-21 04:52:22 +0000
committerMiles Bader <miles@gnu.org>2007-08-21 04:52:22 +0000
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Merge from gnus--rel--5.10
Patches applied: * gnus--rel--5.10 (patch 245) - Update from CVS 2007-08-17 Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> * lisp/gnus/gnus-art.el (gnus-article-summary-command-nosave) (gnus-article-read-summary-keys): Don't use 3rd arg of pop-to-buffer. 2007-08-14 Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> * lisp/gnus/gnus.el (gnus-maximum-newsgroup): New variable. * lisp/gnus/gnus-agent.el (gnus-agent-fetch-headers): Limit the range of articles according to gnus-maximum-newsgroup. * lisp/gnus/gnus-sum.el (gnus-articles-to-read, gnus-list-of-unread-articles) (gnus-list-of-read-articles, gnus-sequence-of-unread-articles): Limit the range of articles according to gnus-maximum-newsgroup. 2007-08-14 Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> * man/gnus.texi (Selecting a Group): Mention gnus-maximum-newsgroup. Revision: emacs@sv.gnu.org/emacs--rel--22--patch-96
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+2007-08-14 Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
+
+ * gnus.texi (Selecting a Group): Mention gnus-maximum-newsgroup.
+
2007-08-17 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
* basic.texi (Position Info): Add index entry for face at point.
diff --git a/man/gnus.texi b/man/gnus.texi
index 94144b65e3f..7cabf674102 100644
--- a/man/gnus.texi
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@@ -2153,6 +2153,24 @@ most recently will be fetched.
@code{gnus-large-newsgroup}, but is only used for ephemeral
newsgroups.
+@vindex gnus-maximum-newsgroup
+In groups in some news servers, there might be a big gap between a few
+very old articles that will never be expired and the recent ones. In
+such a case, the server will return the data like @code{(1 . 30000000)}
+for the @code{LIST ACTIVE group} command, for example. Even if there
+are actually only the articles 1-10 and 29999900-30000000, Gnus doesn't
+know it at first and prepares for getting 30000000 articles. However,
+it will consume hundreds megabytes of memories and might make Emacs get
+stuck as the case may be. If you use such news servers, set the
+variable @code{gnus-maximum-newsgroup} to a positive number. The value
+means that Gnus ignores articles other than this number of the latest
+ones in every group. For instance, the value 10000 makes Gnus get only
+the articles 29990001-30000000 (if the latest article number is 30000000
+in a group). Note that setting this variable to a number might prevent
+you from reading very old articles. The default value of the variable
+@code{gnus-maximum-newsgroup} is @code{nil}, which means Gnus never
+ignores old articles.
+
@vindex gnus-select-group-hook
@vindex gnus-auto-select-first
@vindex gnus-auto-select-subject