Re: registry marks?

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com> writes:
>>
>>> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>>>
>>>> Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm running gnus 5.13 and, while the gnus menu offers an option for
>>>>> adding registry marks to a message, the variable gnus-registry-marks is
>>>>> undefined, and none of my attempts to mark a message work.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there something I have to configure to enable this feature?
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm assuming once I've marked messages, I can somehow retrieve them by
>>>>> mark, or list all the messages marked Important or whatever, right? I'm
>>>>> using nnimap.
>>>>
>>>> Have you required the gnus-registry library, and put
>>>> (gnus-registry-initialize) in your init files? I can't think of any
>>>> other way that `gnus-registry-marks' would be undefined...
>>>
>>> Ok, that definitely helps. Now I can see the values for
>>> gnus-registry-marks, but when I try to add one, e.g., via `M M i', I get:
>>>
>>> Removing mark nil with message ID <87a8v69ltb.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>, resulting in nil
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> -pd
>>
>> Yup, looks like the commands were being given to the function backwards.
>> I've pushed a patch for this, would you try it out?
>
> I'd be happy to, Eric, but I confess that I don't know how to do that. I'm running Gnus on Aquamacs 3.2 GNU Emacs 24.4.51.2. Can I
> just pull a .el file from somewhere, substitute it for an existing file, and then restart emacs? Or do I have to rebuild a binary?
>
> (If I find out how to do this, maybe I can also try out some of the very tempting IMAP improvements people have been talking about.)

In that case it's a little fiddly -- if you want to run the latest Gnus
codebase, your only realistic option is to clone the Gnus git repo, and
then add that to your load path. So this:

git clone http://git.gnus.org/gnus.git

And then:

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/wherever/you/put/gnus/lisp")

That should get you running the newest code.

Yours,
Eric