From 99d1a66646b7450ad0be3e4471341b50fee7bdb5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2020 14:32:19 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Make the "All" setting for large-newsgroup-initial in Gnus
 work

* lisp/gnus/gnus-sum.el (gnus-articles-to-read): Use it.
(gnus-summary-insert-old-articles): Ditto.

* lisp/gnus/gnus.el (large-newsgroup-initial): Make the "All"
setting work by using a special symbol, instead of nil which is
indistinguishable from not being present (bug#38466).
---
 etc/NEWS              |  6 ++++++
 lisp/gnus/gnus-sum.el | 17 +++++++++++------
 lisp/gnus/gnus.el     |  2 +-
 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index fab2d85e8da..492d01feed0 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -207,6 +207,12 @@ Bookmark locations can refer to VC directory buffers.
 
 ** Gnus
 
+---
+*** The value of "all" in the 'large-newsgroup-initial' group parameter changes.
+It was previously nil, which didn't work, because nil is
+indistinguishable from not being present.  The new value for "all" is
+the symbol 'all'.
+
 +++
 *** The name of dependent Gnus sessions has changed from "slave" to "child".
 The names of the commands 'gnus-slave', 'gnus-slave-no-server' and
diff --git a/lisp/gnus/gnus-sum.el b/lisp/gnus/gnus-sum.el
index c1216a0cc24..719498a0337 100644
--- a/lisp/gnus/gnus-sum.el
+++ b/lisp/gnus/gnus-sum.el
@@ -5938,7 +5938,9 @@ If SELECT-ARTICLES, only select those articles from GROUP."
 			 (initial (gnus-parameter-large-newsgroup-initial
 				   gnus-newsgroup-name))
 			 (default (if only-read-p
-				      (or initial gnus-large-newsgroup)
+				      (if (eq initial 'all)
+					  nil
+					(or initial gnus-large-newsgroup))
 				    number))
 			 (input
 			  (read-string
@@ -13165,10 +13167,13 @@ If ALL is a number, fetch this number of articles."
 	 (t
 	  (when (and (numberp gnus-large-newsgroup)
 		   (> len gnus-large-newsgroup))
-	      (let* ((cursor-in-echo-area nil)
-		     (initial (gnus-parameter-large-newsgroup-initial
-			       gnus-newsgroup-name))
-		     (input
+	      (let ((cursor-in-echo-area nil)
+		    (initial (gnus-parameter-large-newsgroup-initial
+			      gnus-newsgroup-name))
+		    input)
+		(when (eq initial 'all)
+		  (setq initial len))
+		(setq input
 		      (read-string
 		       (format
 			"How many articles from %s (%s %d): "
@@ -13177,7 +13182,7 @@ If ALL is a number, fetch this number of articles."
 			len)
 		       nil nil
 		       (and initial
-			    (number-to-string initial)))))
+			    (number-to-string initial))))
 		(unless (string-match "^[ \t]*$" input)
 		  (setq all (string-to-number input))
 		  (if (< all len)
diff --git a/lisp/gnus/gnus.el b/lisp/gnus/gnus.el
index 69f2bb27993..68e2ce772c2 100644
--- a/lisp/gnus/gnus.el
+++ b/lisp/gnus/gnus.el
@@ -1591,7 +1591,7 @@ posting an article."
  "Alist of group regexps and its initial input of the number of articles."
  :variable-group gnus-group-parameter
  :parameter-type '(choice :tag "Initial Input for Large Newsgroup"
-			  (const :tag "All" nil)
+			  (const :tag "All" 'all)
 			  (integer))
  :parameter-document "\
 
-- 
2.39.2