From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/85955 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Uwe Brauer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: ticks, marks, flags (gmail starred) Date: Sun, 24 May 2015 21:36:09 +0200 Message-ID: <87d21p7opi.fsf@mat.ucm.es> References: <87r3q7k7zq.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <87lhgeevip.fsf@uwo.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1432496430 16350 80.91.229.3 (24 May 2015 19:40:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 May 2015 19:40:30 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M34190@lists.math.uh.edu Sun May 24 21:40:15 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ywbkt-0003wj-0T for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 24 May 2015 21:40:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1Ywbko-0008V5-SQ; Sun, 24 May 2015 14:40:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1Ywbkn-0008Uv-N4 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 24 May 2015 14:40:09 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1Ywbkj-0007nq-8S for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 24 May 2015 14:40:09 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Ywbkh-00022h-Ss for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 24 May 2015 21:40:03 +0200 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ywbkh-0003sZ-I5 for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 24 May 2015 21:40:03 +0200 Original-Received: from 171.pool85-55-19.dynamic.orange.es ([85.55.19.171]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 24 May 2015 21:40:03 +0200 Original-Received: from oub by 171.pool85-55-19.dynamic.orange.es with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 24 May 2015 21:40:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 35 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 171.pool85-55-19.dynamic.orange.es Mail-Copies-To: never X-Hashcash: 1:20:150524:gmane.emacs.gnus.general::63Q9CcZ3siUCmlX/:00000000000000000000000000000000000004UkI User-Agent: Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) XEmacs/21.5-b34 (linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:GW1b8RNzkYlMyP7uHkZTn2uai/Y= X-Spam-Score: -2.9 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:85955 Archived-At: >> "Dan" == Dan Christensen writes: > Uwe Brauer writes: >> I connect via imap to my gmail account using gnus. >> Usually I use ! `gnus-summary-tick-article-forward' >> and M-u to untick the messages. >> >> A ticked message understood by gmail as starred and by thunderbird as >> flagged. >> >> What puzzles me is the gnus `u' >> which sets the * mark. > If you have gnus-use-cache set to t, then when you tick an article, > it is also cached, which is indicated with a * mark. Depending on > your gnus-summary-line-format variable, you might only see the * > mark when the tick mark is removed. > Also, when you mark an article as read, it will be removed from the > cache when you exit the group, but the * mark still shows until then. > Most marks show what *will* happen when you exit the summary, but for a > reason I've never understood, the * mark shows the current state > (cached) and some other mechanism results in it getting removed when you > exit the group. > So I think all you have to do is ignore this. The * should be gone the > next time you enter that group. > It can also be removed with M-*. > See the Article Caching section of the Gnus info page. Ah right, sometimes I toggle that on and off and forget about. thanks Uwe