Re: Concerning marks and the back end.

[kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann)]

Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:

> kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>
>> Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:
>>
>>> Like I said originally, I'd like to be able to put a special mark
>>> (managed through the .marks file, not the back end) on my articles, such
>>> that all of those already read articles that have this special mark are
>>> NOT seen; and such that all of those already read articles WITHOUT that
>>> special mark are still visible.
>>
>> You could tick the articles you want to see, and mark as read those
>> you don't want to see.
>
> Did you try this before suggesting it?
>
> A tick mark doesn't help.  If you've been following this thread, you'll
> know that I'm talking about the case where I enter a group with no
> unread articles.  All the ticked and non-ticked articles show up when I
> enter a group with no unread articles.

Note that I suggested to tick the articles you want to see.  So the
tick mark would be the opposite of what you're looking for.

>> You could also mark as dormant the articles you want to see.  Then `Y
>> d' will show the dormant articles.
>
> Thanks.  Soon I'll be off to investigate dormant-izing the articles.
> I'll report back a little later.

Dormant-izing the ones you want to see, that is.

>> You can frob gnus-select-article-hook and/or gnus-mark-article-hook
>> to put marks other than `read' onto articles that you read.
>
> Would those marks get stored in the back end, or in the .marks file?

I think you mean XOR here?

Note that the .marks file is part of the backend.  So the marks would
be stored in .marks and therefore in the backend, so the answer would
be "both".

(Not all backends use .marks files.)

> If they're stored in the back end, I don't know that they would
> help me.

???  Why does it matter where they are stored?

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