Re: Expiring old low-score threads

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>>>>> How can I fix this?  I mean, I obviously want to run my command in
>>>>> complete summary containing all articles I've ever received in that
>>>>> group.  Of course, chances are high that the group contains
>>>>> incomplete threads with false roots where ^
>>>>> (gnus-summary-refer-parent-article) won't cure the symptoms.
>>>>
>>>> It's highly unlikely that I'm actually going to be able to help you
>>>> with this, but in trying to write functions that run over *all* the
>>>> messages in a group I've usually had to start them like this:
>>>>
>>>> (defun  th-gnus-summary-exprire-old-lowscore-articles (group)
>>>>   (interactive (list (gnus-group-group-name)))
>>>>   (let ((gnus-large-newsgroup nil))
>>>>     (gnus-summary-read-group group t t nil)
>>>>
>>>> That at least ensures that all the available messages are present in
>>>> the *Summary* buffer.
>>>
>>> I'm afraid, that doesn't help, 
>>
>> No, I didn't really think it would :)
>
> It's nice to have a conversation anyway. :-)
>
>>> because "all available messages" doesn't equal "there are no false
>>> roots in threads", and those seem to be the culprit for my code. :-(
>>>
>>> But still, I can use your code in order to run my command from
>>> *Group* instead of summary...
>>
>> Some sort of a "hacking gnus" page on the emacs wiki sometimes seems
>> like a good idea.
>
> Yes, or even better, (info "(gnus)Gnus Reference Guide") could be
> extended.

Oh man, I wish I'd found that section of the manual earlier! That could
have saved me quite a bit of time.

What I'd really like to be able to do is edit a message's headers and
resave it from a lisp program...

E