From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/83051 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: collecting recently-viewed messages Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 10:03:15 +0800 Message-ID: <874nflybrw.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <8738v82k1k.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87r4ir3fyd.fsf@andy.bu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1365127116 13612 80.91.229.3 (5 Apr 2013 01:58:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 01:58:36 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M31317@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Apr 05 03:59:04 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UNvvj-0004FU-9M for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 05 Apr 2013 03:59:03 +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 1UNvuH-0005lg-2C; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 20:57:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1UNvuF-0005lR-6y for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 20:57:31 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1UNvuD-0006oS-Ab for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 20:57:30 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UNvuB-0002qn-Ce for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 05 Apr 2013 03:57:27 +0200 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UNvuY-0003G8-Kl for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 05 Apr 2013 03:57:50 +0200 Original-Received: from 114.250.135.46 ([114.250.135.46]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 05 Apr 2013 03:57:50 +0200 Original-Received: from eric by 114.250.135.46 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 05 Apr 2013 03:57:50 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 114.250.135.46 User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:y8MX3vnRliap7KBCzEh7pJIYQes= X-Spam-Score: -2.0 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:83051 Archived-At: Andrew Cohen writes: >>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Abrahamsen writes: > > Eric> Over the past couple of years I've gotten gnus smoothed out > Eric> pretty well. But one continuing annoyance is with recent > Eric> emails -- throughout the course of the day I'm often referring > Eric> back to emails I got in the morning, forwarding things and > Eric> replying multiple times, etc. I could use a persistent nnir > Eric> search group, except that I use Namazu for search indexing and > Eric> I'd have to update the index every hour or so to make it > Eric> useful. > > I re-wrote nnir mostly because I was tired of using namazu when imap > provides (at least for me) better and faster searching. So just a gentle > prod to consider switching at some point down the road. I know, I probably will at some point... > Eric> I use the registry: would it be possible to use it to populate > Eric> a virtual group containing the last 20 registered messages? > Eric> Are they ordered by time of entry? I've got 2500 messages in > Eric> there and the file's one long line, and it's pretty darn hard > Eric> to examine with either emacs or command line tools. > > Eric> I would love to hear any potential solutions to this, or even > Eric> gentle pointers in the right direction. Virtual groups are > Eric> dragon-infested territory to me, but I'd give it a shot. > > Just off the top of my head: > > What about a "today's mail" group that has total-expire set and a time > of one day (or whatever you like). Then set up the expiry-target to be > wherever the messages would normally go. That's not a bad idea, thanks!