Re: Support moving articles in Agent?

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> Make nnagent remember data in calls to e.g. request-move-article and
> invoke it when plugging back in (see `nnagent-request-set-mark' for an
> approach to achieve this).  One problem is, which article number do
> you assign new articles?  If the backend is e.g. nnimap, you cannot
> simply pick one (since the server decides this) unless you do
> something clever.  Using negative article numbers might work though,
> although you must make sure moving the same article several times
> between groups while unplugged doesn't make Gnus do strange things.

Maybe a first approach would be to leave the articles where they are
and just remember that they have been moved.  So the user types `B m'
on a message and the summary line changes somehow to indicate this,
but otherwise nothing obvious happens.  Then, when synchronizing
flags, Gnus really moves the message.

Another possibility might be to pseudo-insert the message into the
target group while unplugged.  For crossposted articles, it is
already possible for `^' to display an article in a group which
doesn't actually occur there.  Maybe a similar mechanism could be
used to display moved-while-offline articles in the target group.
What do you think?

kai
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