Re: Alternate realities

[Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk>]

>>>>> "LMI" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

LMI> The first is an (I think) tin thingie -- you first pick the articles
LMI> you want to read, and then you start reading.  

I'm pretty sure this was pioneered by Kim Storm and his NN newsreader.

LMI> Then you press `RET', the
LMI> summary buffer disappears (after being limited to the articles you've
LMI> chosen) and you do all reading from the article buffer.

I think I'd prefer to stay in the summary buffer.  One way to do that
might be to make the `next-unread' commands always prefer articles
with a process mark over unmarked articles.

LMI> I was wondering whether I should add a minor mode the people can use
LMI> in mail groups...  but I'm not sure.  

Maybe if you told us what the mode should do?

LMI> In fact, I'm not sure whether
LMI> adding minor modes to the summary buffers is a good idea at all.
LMI> Isn't changing keymaps around on the user a bit naughty?  Even if the
LMI> user has requested it by switching the minor mode on?

Not if you use `minor-mode-map-alist'.  The user can always redefine
the keymap then.

LMI> File name translation (":" -> "_") now works everywhere.

Emacs 19.31 will have a `convert-standard-filename' function.  If you
use that instead (and provide a dummy when absent) you won't have to
change anything for future Emacs ports.