Re: matched messages message

[prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com>]

David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> writes:

>> now i'll look into this level business - one of those things i've been
>> meaning to learn, but never got around to it yet.
>
> Easy: When you press 'g', the default is to check all groups with group
> level 3 or lower. So if you do 'S l 4' on the nnmairix group, it
> shouldn't get automatically checked when you press 'g'. To later check
> that group for new messages, you can then either do 'M-g' on it, or you
> do '4 g' to check all groups with group level 4 or lower.
>
excellent! i read up on it too here (and of course in the manual C-c
TAB):
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/Group-Levels.html

now i just have to figure out a sensible way to use this feature - i've
been treating gnus rather one-dimensionally since starting with it a few
months ago.

what i don't quite understand though is what nnmairix was actually doing
with the 
matched 260 messages

was it just reporting on a query i'd done?
was it trying to do the same match each time i did 'g'? that might
explain why things slowed down a bit, perhaps?

-- 
in friendship,
prad