From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79077 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prad Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: matched messages message Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 19:54:27 -0700 Message-ID: <878vt6mof0.fsf@psinom.home> References: <87ipsana33.fsf@psinom.home> <87fwneakpx.fsf@randomsample.de> <87d3iin3pa.fsf@psinom.home> <87boy2adi6.fsf@randomsample.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1307933801 18027 80.91.229.12 (13 Jun 2011 02:56:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 02:56:41 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27376@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Jun 13 04:56:37 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QVxKN-00074k-F3 for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 04:56:35 +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 1QVxJP-0004fC-M4; Sun, 12 Jun 2011 21:55:35 -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 1QVxJM-0004ex-To for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 12 Jun 2011 21:55:32 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QVxJI-0007f1-Jg for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 12 Jun 2011 21:55:29 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QVxJF-0003pC-Pc for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 04:55:25 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QVxJF-0006nO-F1 for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 04:55:25 +0200 Original-Received: from s0106000acd1d509c.du.shawcable.net ([70.67.174.161]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 04:55:25 +0200 Original-Received: from prad by s0106000acd1d509c.du.shawcable.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 04:55:25 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: s0106000acd1d509c.du.shawcable.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:d24RqZLTIZ+ivKNMH5BwTd6S7Co= X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79077 Archived-At: David Engster 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