Re: a mysterious star on the Gnus firmament

[Dan Sommers]

On 3/22/19 4:20 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote:

> Just now, I fell asleep for like ~1s but it was
> enough for me to accidentally press some
> buttons while in a Gnus Summary buffer.
> What happened was, an asterisk (the `*' char)
> appeared to the right of a single e-mail, at
> the 2nd position left-to-right (or Emacs buffer
> column 1, if you will).

The next time something like happens, try running
M-x view-lossage, usually also bound to C-h l.