Re: Select first *unseen* unread message in summary buffer?

[Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>]

On Fri, 07 Dec 2001, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net> writes:
> 
>> Hey y'all. I am curious to know if there is as (easy) way to get Gnus
>> to put point on the first /unseen/ and unread article in a summary
>> buffer.
>>
>> Basically, what I want is that when I enter the group, Gnus places
>> point after the article that I have not read but have seen, by
>> default.
> 
> Can you score up "unseen" (and possibly "recent" as well) articles and
> then use ',' (`gnus-summary-best-unread-article')?

Not without losing some of the filtering I currently use to work out
what is and isn't worth reading.

I probably can, but I would rather implement a more flexible interface
to selecting the first article, I admit. :)

        Daniel

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