From: Andrew Cohen <cohen@andy.bu.edu>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: deleting articles from search groups?
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:57:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aakggsux.fsf@andy.bu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3eia4bvoj.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>
>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
Lars> Andrew Cohen <cohen@andy.bu.edu> writes:
>> But after doing this, I'm wondering whether or not this is a good
>> idea. Should we worry that someone might be surprised that an
>> action on the results of a search has the effect of deleting an
>> article permanently from its original group? But you might say
>> the same thing about moving articles.
Lars> Yes, I don't think users will be surprised that deleting an
Lars> article in the nnir group makes it go away forever. I mean,
Lars> that's what they're queried for on `B DEL'.
>> But this means that gnus-summary-expire-articles is called on the
>> nnir group upon summary-buffer exit.
Lars> But this is only called with the "E"-marked articles. I guess
Lars> if the user sets the "E" mark on nnir articles, they probably
Lars> know that it's in danger of being deleted. But I don't think
Lars> anybody will do that, really...
OK, I've been living with this for a week and haven't had anything
really bad happen. So I've pushed this. Let me know if anything goes
wrong.
Andy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-08 15:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-28 21:17 Andrew Cohen
2010-11-28 23:25 ` Dan Christensen
2010-11-29 18:03 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2010-11-29 18:12 ` Rupert Swarbrick
2010-11-29 18:49 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2010-11-29 4:28 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-08 15:57 ` Andrew Cohen [this message]
2010-12-08 19:25 ` Dan Christensen
2010-12-08 19:31 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-08 19:33 ` Andrew Cohen
2010-12-08 21:44 ` Dan Christensen
2010-12-09 13:21 ` Andrew Cohen
2010-12-08 19:32 ` Andrew Cohen
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