From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/72152 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Berman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: display parameter Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:36:52 +0200 Message-ID: <87mxr0howb.fsf@escher.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285753036 4554 80.91.229.12 (29 Sep 2010 09:37:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:37:16 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M20525=ding+2Daccount=gmane.org@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Sep 29 11:37:14 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P0t6A-0006g9-0K for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:37:14 +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 1P0t69-00008P-D3 for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 04:37:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1P0t67-00008K-Vh for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 04:37:11 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P0t66-0004EQ-Lm for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 04:37:11 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1P0t66-00063F-00 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:37:10 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P0t5z-0006ZF-Cc for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:37:03 +0200 Original-Received: from i59f57ed8.versanet.de ([89.245.126.216]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:37:03 +0200 Original-Received: from stephen.berman by i59f57ed8.versanet.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:37:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 35 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: i59f57ed8.versanet.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:72152 Archived-At: When I type RET or SPC on a group in the Group buffer, it enters the Summary buffer of the group and displays both unread and ticked articles by default. I would like to have only unread articles displayed on entering the Summary buffer. If I understand the manual, that's what the display parameter does: Elements that look like `(display . MODE)' say which articles to display on entering the group. Valid values are: [...] `an array' Display articles that satisfy a predicate. Here are some examples: `[unread]' Display only unread articles. But when I set this (either with `G P' or with `G C'), the effect is not what I expect. For instance, currently there are four unread articles in my gnus.emacs.bugs group. With the default settings, both these articles and the ticked articles are displayed. With ((display . [unread])) as the value of the group parameters, typing RET or SPC gives me the prompt "How many articles from gmane.emacs.bugs (default 40536): ". If I hit RET, then after several minutes of Emacs consuming ~90% CPU, I finally get the Summary buffer -- displaying both the four unread articles as well as all my ticked articles, and nothing else. If at the prompt I enter a number less than 35, only the four unread articles are displayed. Entering a higher number results in ticked articles also being displayed (only one for 35-50, with 100 four ticked articles are displayed). So is the display parameter borked or am I doing something wrong, and if so, how do I get the behavior I want (only unread articles displayed)? This is with Gnus from GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.6) of 2010-09-28. Steve Berman