comparison lisp/nnfolder.el @ 14040:187735b53d52

Comment fixes.

14039:831c5fda97f4

(defvar nnfolder-active-file 
  (concat (file-name-as-directory nnfolder-directory) "active")
  "The name of the active file.")

;; I renamed this variable to somehting more in keeping with the general GNU
;; style. -SLB

(defvar nnfolder-ignore-active-file nil
  "If non-nil, causes nnfolder to do some extra work in order to determine the true active ranges of an mbox file.  
Note that the active file is still saved, but it's values are not

;; This method has a problem if you've accidentally let the active list get
;; out of sync with the files.  This could happen, say, if you've
;; accidentally gotten new mail with something other than Gnus (but why
;; would _that_ ever happen? :-).  In that case, we will be in the middle of
;; processing the file, ready to add new X-Gnus article number markers, and
;; we'll run accross a message with no ID yet - the active list _may_not_ be
;; ready for us yet.

;; To handle this, I'm modifying this routine to maintain the maximum ID seen
;; so far, and when we hit a message with no ID, we will _manually_ scan the
;; rest of the message looking for any more, possibly higher IDs.  We'll

	  (active (car (cdr (assoc nnfolder-current-group 
				   nnfolder-group-alist))))
	  activenumber activemin start end)
      (goto-char (point-min))
      ;;
      ;; Anytime the active number is 1 or 0, it is supect.  In that case,
      ;; search the file manually to find the active number.  Or, of course,
      ;; if we're being paranoid.  (This would also be the place to build
      ;; other lists from the header markers, such as expunge lists, etc., if
      ;; we ever desired to abandon the active file entirely for mboxes.)
      (setq activenumber (cdr active))

14040:187735b53d52

(defvar nnfolder-active-file 
  (concat (file-name-as-directory nnfolder-directory) "active")
  "The name of the active file.")

;; I renamed this variable to something more in keeping with the general GNU
;; style. -SLB

(defvar nnfolder-ignore-active-file nil
  "If non-nil, causes nnfolder to do some extra work in order to determine the true active ranges of an mbox file.  
Note that the active file is still saved, but it's values are not

;; This method has a problem if you've accidentally let the active list get
;; out of sync with the files.  This could happen, say, if you've
;; accidentally gotten new mail with something other than Gnus (but why
;; would _that_ ever happen? :-).  In that case, we will be in the middle of
;; processing the file, ready to add new X-Gnus article number markers, and
;; we'll run across a message with no ID yet - the active list _may_not_ be
;; ready for us yet.

;; To handle this, I'm modifying this routine to maintain the maximum ID seen
;; so far, and when we hit a message with no ID, we will _manually_ scan the
;; rest of the message looking for any more, possibly higher IDs.  We'll

	  (active (car (cdr (assoc nnfolder-current-group 
				   nnfolder-group-alist))))
	  activenumber activemin start end)
      (goto-char (point-min))
      ;;
      ;; Anytime the active number is 1 or 0, it is suspect.  In that case,
      ;; search the file manually to find the active number.  Or, of course,
      ;; if we're being paranoid.  (This would also be the place to build
      ;; other lists from the header markers, such as expunge lists, etc., if
      ;; we ever desired to abandon the active file entirely for mboxes.)
      (setq activenumber (cdr active))