Re: Problems with gnus-registry

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:58:17 +0100 David <de_bb@arcor.de> wrote: 

D> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
>> As we want to store marks (or "labels") in the registry, wouldn't it
>> make sense to have two different variables?  (Though both should/could
>> contain "ignore" in the name, like the related nnmail-* variables.)  A
>> user might want to ignore some groups for parent splitting, but want
>> to set marks in these groups.

D> I second that, please keep both variables. But I think it should be made
D> clearer that the variable currently named
D> gnus-registry-unfollowed-groups is related to splitting only, so maybe
D> call it gnus-registry-split-with-parent-ignored-groups or something like
D> that.

I'd like to avoid the two variables, see my proposal separately.  If you
and Reiner feel strongly they should be separate, though, I'll go along.

D> By the way, I'm currently playing around with the registry labels and
D> was wondering: what would currently be the best way to get all message
D> ids with a certain label? This way, I could easily create nnmairix
D> groups containing only these messages.

Currently there's no reverse mapping.  We have it for subject and
sender, and it should be fairly easy to generalize it for multi-value
entries like the labels.  See gnus-registry-fetch-extra-entry for the
cache insertion part; gnus-registry-split-fancy-with-parent uses the
cache.  I think the code could be much better, BTW.

Ted