Re: upgrade notes

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Wes Hardaker <wes@hardakers.net> writes:

> Yep.  That's correct.  If I enter the group, but don't read anything,
> and exit it would go away.
>
> Functionally it was an "indication that new mail was in the group since
> the last time I had been in it".

Right.  I switched it on, and I misremembered slightly how it worked.
It's like a non-permanent "unseen" mark -- it'll stay there until you
visit the group, or you exit Gnus.

I've now implemented the same logic for nnimap.

> I *think* that's right too.  I have lots of "unread" messages in groups
> because I typically will go into a box, read something and then "unmark"
> it again because I need to deal with it later (where read-marks are left
> on stuff that is "don't delete yet, but it's not functionally a
> todo-list item").

I used to show %U instead of %R -- that is, only show how many unseen
articles there are in each group, because I'd also do that.  And that
works across Gnus sessions, too.  But if you never quit/restart Gnus,
then there isn't much difference between the two.  :-)  (Except that %R
works on NNTP groups, too.)

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