Re: emulating mozilla's Label command

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, cmg@dok.org wrote:
> I glanced at the registry and it seems separating out the parent
> threading functions from what directories the registry actually
> watches might be desirable.  

I don't understand, sorry.

> My thinking there is I'd want to watch every single folder for
> labeling.It doesn't matter much to me since I don't split much
> within gnus.
> 
> Rough outline of what needs to be done:
>    insert label(s) in registry

store label list:
(gnus-registry-store-extra-entry id 'label label-value-list)

fetch label list:
(gnus-registry-fetch-extra id 'label)

>    allow display of labels outside of *Summary*

See above.

>    label commands for *Summary*/*Article*

I don't think there's any letters left :)  Any suggestions are
welcome.  Maybe M-l?

>    allow display of labels in *Summary*

Probably doable with a user display function.  I don't know much about
that side of Gnus.

> It looks like the registry cache's enough to make the display of
> labels straight from the registry easy.  Would the searching of the
> registry for all things having a "label" data be prohibitive?

Yes, but why would you?  You just need to look up the article of
interest by message ID.

Ted