Re: Moving articles destroys all marks

[Toni Drabik <tdrabik@public.srce.hr>]

François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> Toni Drabik <tdrabik@public.srce.hr> writes:
> 
> > This morning I just moved several hundred articles from one
> > `nnfolder' group to another (which didn't exist before, and was
> > created when doing `B m'). After doing `F' in *Group* buffer after
> > that, I was unpleasantly surprised to see that all articles in the
> > new group appeared as unread and without any other marks that were
> > applied to them in the old group (i.e. ticked articles became
> > ordinary ones, and all `A' marks were lost, too).
> 
> By all means, I would like that moved articles recover their
> "unread" status. What is the purpose of moving articles that Gnus
> would carefully keep out of my sight (unless I take extraordinary
> measures to read them)?

When I decide to move article(s) from one group to another, I'm
usually doing it because:

a) my splitting rules failed to do the right thing; or

b) I want to archive some articles and remove them from my ``regular'' 
   groups to archiving ones.

In one case or another, I don't see why moved articles should lose
their status. I think it's rather inconvenient.

However, if you (and some others) depend on this behavior, I believe
it should be somehow customizable.


-- 
Toni Drabik <tdrabik@public.srce.hr>
Warning: This article may be fatal if swallowed.