From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79334 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrew Cohen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Bug with referring articles Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2011 08:02:32 -0400 Message-ID: <87wrg0nb53.fsf@andy.bu.edu> References: <87fwnbr15c.fsf@fastmail.fm> <87boxzhrs8.fsf@member.fsf.org> <87oc1y1d6i.fsf@member.fsf.org> <87ei2t4ksj.fsf@member.fsf.org> <87r56asz1g.fsf@andy.bu.edu> <87mxgxy7ez.fsf@member.fsf.org> <87pqltocbo.fsf@andy.bu.edu> <87iprly5ry.fsf@member.fsf.org> <87liwho954.fsf@andy.bu.edu> <87r569ezva.fsf@member.fsf.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1309608200 3335 80.91.229.12 (2 Jul 2011 12:03:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 12:03:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Tassilo Horn Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27630@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Jul 02 14:03:16 2011 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 1Qcyup-0002Kb-Ei for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 14:03:15 +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 1QcyuF-0004aU-2P; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 07:02:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QcyuD-0004aH-QH for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 07:02:37 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QcyuC-0001VJ-I4 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 07:02:37 -0500 Original-Received: from andy.bu.edu ([128.197.41.152]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QcyuB-0007uN-0j for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 14:02:35 +0200 Original-Received: from cohen by andy.bu.edu with local (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Qcyu8-0003eL-R0; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 08:02:32 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87r569ezva.fsf@member.fsf.org> (Tassilo Horn's message of "Sat, 02 Jul 2011 12:33:13 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: cohen@andy.bu.edu X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on andy.bu.edu); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79334 Archived-At: >>>>> "Tassilo" == Tassilo Horn writes: >> >> Err, yeah, that's the "expected" behavior. All the search >> functions are designed this way. I can probably modify them to >> take a shortcut, but they don't at the moment. It shouldn't be >> that hard to do, but is it worth it? My searches (admittedly with >> only a few dozen groups) finish quickly enough that I don't think >> I would notice the difference. Tassilo> Yes, it's quite fast to find one article (say, 2 or 3 Tassilo> secs), but short-cutting might be worth when having to Tassilo> search for many different articles during `A T'. For Tassilo> example, some people have folders like 2011/jan, 2011/feb, Tassilo> so referring threads wrapping around months is costly. Tassilo> (Not that I say that's a good way of organizing mail...) Since it's easy enough to do, I went ahead and did it. Give it a try and let me know if it works. By the way, if searching one group is taking a long time you /should/ be able to C-g to move on to the next group in the list. Andy