From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/66937 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus-summary-kill-thread should also do gnus-summary-limit-to-unread Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 09:51:27 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <86prrr8tjk.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <8763tl8wr5.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210603793 12672 80.91.229.12 (12 May 2008 14:49:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 14:49:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: jidanni@jidanni.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M15414@lists.math.uh.edu Mon May 12 16:50:31 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JvZMD-0007QL-If for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 12 May 2008 16:50:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JvZKc-0000zu-9d; Mon, 12 May 2008 09:48:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JvZKa-0000zY-V1 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 12 May 2008 09:48:48 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JvZKV-0005jW-6C for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 12 May 2008 09:48:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.blockstar.com ([170.224.69.95]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1JvZKi-0000bI-00 for ; Mon, 12 May 2008 16:48:57 +0200 Original-Received: from tzlatanov-ubuntu-desktop.jumptrading.com (unknown [38.98.147.130]) by mail.blockstar.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 747093F8416; Mon, 12 May 2008 08:00:43 -0700 (PDT) X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" X-Hashcash: 1:20:080512:ding@gnus.org::+UcKX+sEHh3mfTy4:00001Uvo X-Hashcash: 1:20:080512:jidanni@jidanni.org::PmHMvqI4gIOxd3ZZ:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000G7w In-Reply-To: <8763tl8wr5.fsf@jidanni.org> (jidanni@jidanni.org's message of "Sun, 11 May 2008 09:17:34 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:66937 Archived-At: On Sun, 11 May 2008 09:17:34 +0800 jidanni@jidanni.org wrote: j> k runs the command gnus-summary-kill-thread j> However, maybe it also should do j> x runs the command gnus-summary-limit-to-unread j> as when one nears the bottom of the buffer, it becomes very j> uncomfortable killing a thread you don't know the full magnitude of. j> Yes, in gnus-summary-line-format one can use j> %t Number of articles under the current thread (number). j> but the feeling isn't the same. It's possible to set that up for yourself: write a function that calls both with the same universal-prefix. I like to see articles I've killed. Sometimes I kill the wrong thread and it's good to see that before it disappears. In general, Gnus' philosophy seems to be "keep articles in the summary buffer as long as possible." Ted