Enrico Schumann <e...@enricoschumann.net> writes: > On Sun, 26 Feb 2017, Eric Abrahamsen writes: > >> Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram....@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> On Sun, Feb 26 2017,Enrico Schumann wrote: >>> >>>> On Sun, 26 Feb 2017, Adam Sjøgren writes: >>> >>> [snipped 20 lines] >>> >>>> When 'gnus-use-cache' is t, ticking (!) will also copy the >>>> article to the cache. See http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_42.html . >>>> >>> >>> if it's set to t (gnus-use-cache), won't all articles be cached? I >>> only want to do this for interesting articles >> >> Its default value, the symbol 'passive, should do what you want: only >> cache articles when you tell it to, with * or !. > > Hm, I've just tested this, and with gnus-use-cache set > to 'passive, Gnus does *not* cache articles that I tick > with '!'. It may well be, as always, that I have > something in my .gnus.el that prevents this :-) But it > is also in line with the docs > (http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_42.html): > > ,---- > | To turn caching on, set gnus-use-cache to t. By > | default, all articles ticked or marked as dormant > | will then be copied over to your local cache > | (gnus-cache-directory). > `---- > > So only 'articles ticked or marked as dormant' are > copied to the cache, not all articles.
Right, I just looked through the code and it won't enter either * or ! articles into the cache when `gnus-use-cache' is 'passive. I guess you could set `gnus-use-cache' to t and see what happens. There are plenty of other knobs to twiddle to reduce the scope of articles that are cached. Eric _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english