Re: Concerning marks and the back end.

[Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:
>
>> I'm talking about the case where all messages are already marked as
>> read, and I want to enter the group.  If there is a several-thousand
>> message backlog of already-read messages in that group, it takes a huge
>> amount of time to construct the summary buffer.  For example, one such
>> group has 5670 old messages as of this posting.
>>
>> Not fetching headers for most of this several-thousand message backlog
>> would speed things up immensely.
>
> If you only ask for the, say, three last articles, you should only
> get the article headers for (approx.) the last three articles.

Well, I guess you're talking about my typing something like ...

  <ESC> 5 0 <space>

... when pointing to the group in the Groups buffer to see only that
last (approx.) 50 unread articles.  I had forgotten about that and it
indeed works for me.  So for the time being, this is a big help.

Nonetheless, I'm wondering if there's a way to mark articles in such a
way that these marks are stored in the .marks file (instead of the back
end), so that articles marked in this way will never be queried from the
back end unless some special command is typed.

It seems like that would be a nice feature.

Well, maybe in my not-very-voluminous-yet-more-than-nonexistent spare
time I'll look at the source and see if I could hack^H^H^H^Hcode up
something like that.


> Or is it the .marks code that goes through a lot more articles than
> that?

I'm not sure what you're asking, but I think the answer is no :) ...
given that the above test worked for me.


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>    larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
>

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