bug#71888: [PATCH] nnfeed: (Mostly) fix group descriptions

[Daniel Semyonov]

Tags: patch

Hi,

I realized a few days ago I barely tested group descriptions in nnatom
(and by extension nnfeed), and turns out they were in fact broken.
Attached is a patch which should fix them.

Also, while working on this patch I found out the Gnus backend interface
docs are slightly misleading on this subject - Gnus reads a group
description per line inserted in the " *nntpd*" buffer, with each line
containing a group's name followed by its description.
Contrary to the docs, the separator between the name and its associated
description is either a space or a tab (the docs only mention a tab).
This is why this is "mostly" fixed, as groups with a space in their name
will incorrectly include any part of the name after the first space in
the description.

I don't currently have time to go over all other backends to see if
changing this to reflect the docs will break anything, so I just added a
comment about it.

Daniel



In GNU Emacs 30.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version
 3.24.41, cairo version 1.18.0) of 2024-06-12 built on coldharbour
Repository revision: 3905db6e3aa947b847c072259ad6d08c8a15e10e
Repository branch: master
System Description: Void Linux

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 --with-small-ja-dic --with-native-compilation 'CFLAGS=-march=native
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0001-nnfeed-Mostly-fix-group-descriptions.patch
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