Re: Snoozing a message in gnus?

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 17:26:12 -0500 Trevor Murphy <trevor.m.murphy@gmail.com> wrote: 

TM> On Mon, Nov 10 2014, Ted Zlatanov wrote: 
>> But as far as moving messages, if Gnus supported Gmail's labels, we
>> could just apply a "Later" label to the message. It doesn't seem too
>> hard:
>> https://developers.google.com/gmail/imap_extensions#access_to_gmail_labels_x-gm-labels 

TM> What features of Gmail labels are you missing?

You can have more than one per message :)

>> The registry could update those groups with a glowing indicator
>> light or something :)

TM> Whoa, I hadn't seen the registry before.  That looks like a fairly
TM> heavyweight solution, but since it'll work with nnimap and nntp out of
TM> the box, I figure it's worth starting there.

TM> Looks like I want a command that marks the article dormant, prompts
TM> for a delay like how `gnus-delay-article' does, then sets an
TM> appropriate value under a registry "snooze" key.

TM> Then I'll throw something in the demon or the get-new-news hook to
TM> iterate over articles in the registry with a "snooze" key and mark
TM> them ticked + unread if the date is past.

TM> The manual says there's a built-in registry inverse map that'll let me
TM> look up all messages matching a particular set of criteria. Is this
TM> referring to `registry-search'?  Or should I be trying to use
TM> `gnus-registry-find-keywords'?

registry.el is the generic DB, while gnus-registry.el uses it.  So I
would use gnus-registry functions if possible, implementing new ones as
needed, to avoid unnecessary coupling to the underlying registry.el
implementation (which can and probably will change when we have FFI in
Emacs :)

Your plan seems good to me.  Maybe you want to synchronize with Eric
Abrahamsen who was looking at fixing up some registry issues?

Ted