Re: nnimap: editing articles

["Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On 11 Feb 2006, jas@extundo.com wrote:

> Gnus' editing functionality assume that if you edit article X, it will
> be called X after the editing too.  I.e., it doesn't refresh group
> information, and doesn't understand when the new article is called Y.
> Perhaps that can be fixed, so that 'e' works.  OTOH, perhaps using 'e'
> will simply give wrong impressions.  With IMAP, you don't actually
> edit the article.  Perhaps some command that will download an article,
> put you into an editing buffer, and have a command, say, C-c C-c
> "save" it by querying for a destination group (which could be any
> group) and then save the new article to that group.  This sounds
> rather useful, actually.  Perhaps this is already possible...

I don't see a problem with using `e' for this.  It's very reasonable,
and will affect other IMAP clients a little bit by appearing to create
a new message, but if we set the flags appropriately that won't be
serious.

What do you think about the discussion between me and Reiner about
custom flags for Gnus in general?  Is that something that imap.el and
nnimap.el can support easily?  Are there any performance issues?

Ted