Re: emulating mozilla's Label command

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Thu, 08 Apr 2004, jas@extundo.com wrote:

> Perhaps there are simpler solution, but your report started a
> different process in my mind: It should be easier to introduce new
> flags in Gnus.  It should be possible to add user-defined flags.  We
> add flags from time to time to Gnus, and the process of doing this
> is technically simple, if only you recall to update all places in
> the code.  It can probably be generalized and made available as a
> user command.  

I recall that when I added the spam-mark it was not a simple process,
so any sort of automation would be nice.  

The gnus-registry may also help here.  The registry file can be stored
anywhere (think tramp/scp to a remote server from several clients),
and is backend-neutral.  Most users, I would guess, want to associate
a flag with a message ID, not with an article number.  Since
arbitrary data can be stored in the registry, and lookup is very
fast, this may be a convenient solution that will allow just about any
flag to be added with a minimum amount of effort, and no backend
support is needed.  Just an idea...

Ted