From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/83081 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Expiring old low-score threads Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 08:10:29 +0800 Message-ID: <87k3o0wvey.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87r4i9iez8.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <87sj2pw8ap.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87bo9di5zc.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1366243524 32344 80.91.229.3 (18 Apr 2013 00:05:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:05:24 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M31347@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Apr 18 02:05:28 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UScLv-0005KU-Sw for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 02:05:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1UScL6-0004Iw-2b; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:04:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1UScL4-0004Ig-He for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:04:34 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1UScL3-0004yd-6X for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:04:33 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UScL1-0008RH-5v for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 02:04:31 +0200 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UScKv-00042q-Dz for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 02:04:25 +0200 Original-Received: from 114.250.109.158 ([114.250.109.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 02:04:25 +0200 Original-Received: from eric by 114.250.109.158 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 02:04:25 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 114.250.109.158 User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:uWi1mBdWfCKmI7wHnez9wdZyfaQ= X-Spam-Score: -1.4 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:83081 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn writes: > Eric Abrahamsen 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.