Re: Gnus Questions #1: Article Expiry

[lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de>]

Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:

>> I mean, there is no mark for "expired articles" (i.e. deleted
>> articles) as far as I know.  Just "expirable articles".
>
> I agree and am inclined to think we need to s/expired/expirable/ in
> the referenced info node.  I'll put that in my patch.

,---- [ info (gnus) Read Articles ]
| `r'
|      These are articles that the user has marked as read with the `d'
|      command manually, more or less (`gnus-del-mark').
`----

,---- [ info (gnus) Setting Marks ]
| `M d'
| `d'
|      Mark the current article as read
|      (`gnus-summary-mark-as-read-forward').
| 
| `D'
|      Mark the current article as read and move point to the previous
|      line (`gnus-summary-mark-as-read-backward').
`----

The `gnus-del-mark' still exists in gnus-score.el, gnus.el and
gnus-sum.el.

> [...]
>>>     ,----
>>>     | To avoid having articles marked as read marked as
>>>     | expirable automatically, you can put something like the following in
>>>     | your `~/.gnus.el' file:
>>>     | 
>>>     |      (remove-hook 'gnus-mark-article-hook
>>>     |                   'gnus-summary-mark-read-and-unread-as-read)
>>>     |      (add-hook 'gnus-mark-article-hook 'gnus-summary-mark-unread-as-read)
>>>     | 
>>>     `----
>>
>> Yes, that seems rather excessive.
>
> Any objections if I remove that passage in my patch?

Yes :)  It's nice to have examples like this in the documentation.  How
else are users supposed to figure out what they could do?  See also the
chapter "3.3.2 Choosing Variables" (which also mentions `gnus-del-mark',
btw.).