From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/48690 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Concerning marks and the back end. Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 22:02:30 +0100 Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <84fzsagd5l.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> References: <86fzsc4ii2.fsf@asfast.com> <84k7hnjxqi.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <86y9638l7i.fsf@asfast.com> <8465t6aznd.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <864r8qnlqe.fsf@asfast.com> <843coa9h4m.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <86of6ym3i6.fsf@asfast.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1041627774 6641 80.91.224.249 (3 Jan 2003 21:02:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 21:02:54 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18UYxx-0001ix-00 for ; Fri, 03 Jan 2003 22:02:53 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18UYy9-0005X6-00; Fri, 03 Jan 2003 15:03:05 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 03 Jan 2003 15:03:58 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (sclp3.sclp.com [66.230.238.2]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA29507 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 15:03:43 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 69472 invoked by alias); 3 Jan 2003 21:02:46 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 69467 invoked from network); 3 Jan 2003 21:02:45 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by 66.230.238.6 with SMTP; 3 Jan 2003 21:02:45 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18UYzg-0004lL-00 for ; Fri, 03 Jan 2003 22:04:40 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 53 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd951fb70.dip.t-dialin.net Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1041627880 18046 217.81.251.112 (3 Jan 2003 21:04:40 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 Jan 2003 21:04:40 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:erXxrfnXKMGlw00QnWhEh0xulPw= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:48690 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:48690 Lloyd Zusman writes: > kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes: > >> Lloyd Zusman 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? -- Ambibibentists unite!