Re: Gnus archive group processing is broken

[Katsumi Yamaoka]

>>>>> In <address@hidden> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>>     The default value for `gnus-message-archive-method' is "archive".  If
>>     you have an (nnfolder "") and an (nnml "") method, both will use
>>     ~/Mail/active as the active file, which will confuse both nnfolder
>>     and nnml.
>>
>> Would it be a good idea to detect that case and call display-warning
>> or do something else?

> Yes, it would.  It's not trivial to detect, though.  Let's see...  if
> `nnml-server-opened' and `nnfolder-server-opened' both are true at
> some point, and both use the same directory, then a warning could be
> displayed.

> Perhaps the right place would be after scanning for new news.  I've
> now done this in the development Gnus, and we'll see how that goes... 

display-warning is not available in Emacs 21.3 unfortunately.