Re: gnus-registry flags API

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:26:08 -0500 Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> wrote: 

TZ> The frontend functionality I would like:

TZ> - set a flag for an article (this should be a simple function a user can
TZ> call from a group or message buffer, which grabs the message ID and uses
TZ> the gnus-registry API afterwards)

TZ> - indicate the article flags somehow (fringe or status line maybe?)

TZ> - add summary line formatting support for arbitrary flags

TZ> Any suggestions or contributions (especially the three items above) are
TZ> welcome.  Please review and criticize the code if you can, I haven't
TZ> done Emacs Lisp in a bit :)

I added the essential functions (first on the list) in CVS, now we need
a status line / summary line integration for these.  Note that the MARK
here is really any Lisp symbol, so 'hello-there-flag and
'goodbye-here-but-I-like-verbosity-flag are OK.  Go wild.

gnus-registry-mark-article ARTICLE &optional MARK REMOVE

- if ARTICLE is nil, use current article

- if MARK is nil, use gnus-registry-flag-default (you don't want that,
  it's boring)

- if REMOVE is t, remove MARK from the flags

gnus-registry-article-marks ARTICLE: get list of marks for the article

- if ARTICLE is nil, use current article

Let me know if you find bugs or inconsistencies.  I am especially
curious how these should integrate with the other Gnus summary
functions, and if they should take prefix arguments, etc.  For me that's
not a big deal.

Ted