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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Expiring old low-score threads
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 08:10:29 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k3o0wvey.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bo9di5zc.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de>

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 :)

> 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.




  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-18  0:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-17 11:16 Tassilo Horn
2013-04-17 14:17 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-04-17 14:31   ` Tassilo Horn
2013-04-18  0:10     ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2013-04-18  6:51       ` Tassilo Horn
2013-04-18  7:08         ` Eric Abrahamsen

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