Re: deleting articles from search groups?

[Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Nov 29 2010,Dan Christensen wrote:

> Andrew Cohen <cohen@andy.bu.edu> writes:
>
>> But after doing this, I'm wondering whether or not this is a good
>> idea. Should we worry that someone might be surprised that an action on
>> the results of a search has the effect of deleting an article
>> permanently from its original group? 
>
> Maybe it's worth asking the user, since deletion is permanent?  This is
> done in gnus-summary-delete-article if gnus-novice-user is set.  Since
> that's the only occurrence of that variable in gnus-sum.el, maybe you
> could just set that variable in nnir groups??  Or maybe you want a
> customized question:  "Deleting articles will delete them from the
> original groups.  Proceed?"
>

I second this.  Though, I think there might be use cases where people
might want to only delete in the searched articles to keep the search
list sane or refine it further by simply deleting the matches that
were false positives.  That's within the search context and not
permanent deletion.



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