At 13:57 -0800 on Thursday 2017-11-30, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > > [email protected] (N. Jackson) writes: >> >> How can I tell the Agent to not download even the headers for a >> group? >> >> It seems I need an Agent predicate that is more strongly >> negative than `false', something like `not-even-headers'. > > I don't think it's possible to do this presently -- looking at > `gnus-agent-fetch-group-1', the headers are indeed fetched > before the predicate is examined. In principle, however, there's > no reason why this wouldn't be possible: we could retrieve the > predicate higher up in the function, and ignore the group > altogether (unless some articles had been marked specifically > for downloading). > > I suggest using `gnus-bug' to report this and describe the > situation; hopefully someone will get to it! > > Eric
Hi Eric, thank you for the response. Today I discovered `gnus-agent-handle-level' which I think I can use to do what I want. gnus-agent-handle-level is a variable defined in `gnus-agent.el'. Its value is 5 Documentation: Groups on levels higher than this variable will be ignored by the Agent. You can customize this variable. All my news groups are currently at a subscribedness level of 3 (the default), so I'll bump up the subscribedness of the groups I want the agent to retrieve anything for to level 2 and set `gnus-agent-handle-level' to 2 as well. This should solve my problem in a tidy way. In fact, this seems to be such a natural solution that I'm not sure that there is a need for a new feature, so I won't file a feature request unless this plan doesn't work out for some reason. N. _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
