From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/9632 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "St. Suika Fenderson Roberts" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Please help me renumber articles ! Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 16:02:10 -0600 Message-ID: <199701262202.QAA60192@rs5.tcs.tulane.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035149626 19566 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:33:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:33:46 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA22411 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 1997 14:15:57 -0800 Original-Received: from rs5.tcs.tulane.edu (rs5.tcs.tulane.edu [129.81.224.56]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Sun, 26 Jan 1997 23:02:02 +0100 Original-Received: (wrobert2@localhost) by rs5.tcs.tulane.edu (8.6.12/8.5) id QAA60192; Sun, 26 Jan 1997 16:02:10 -0600 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:9632 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:9632 David Moore writes: > If you want all of the numbers back to 1, you can go into the > group with `C-u SPC', turn off threading with `T T', sort the articles > in a reasonable order `C-c C-s C-n' then using `C-u ### B m' refile > everything into a _new_ group (where ### is large enough to cover all of > the articles). Then you can go and rename & remove the original group, > and then rename the new group to the old name. > If you just want the group compacted, but not starting at > article number 1, you can just refile into the same group rather than > a new one. The problem with both of these is that this looses all of the marks one may have. If one is insanely patient one can pull up ones .newsrc.eld and the folder/directory in buffers, then re-number the marks/mail by hand as one goes along, although one will then need to modify the active file and overview files when one is done. > Anyone have better thoughts on this? Considering how slow total-expire > currently gets with groups with lots of holes, maybe a safe compaction > routine should be added to Gnus itself. I think that would be a wonderfull idea. I would probably have it just find the lowest unused article number, move the lowest higher numbered article to that number, fix marks, modify the overview file, the active file if it needs it, repeat. I've contemplated doing it by hand to a couple of my folders . . . Suika -- wrobert2@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu I hate quotations. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Suika no homepage