Only marking *non-read* articles as expired with auto-expire.

Only marking *non-read* articles as expired with auto-expire.

[Rob Browning]

Is there a simple way to have gnus not mark read articles as expired
when you're using auto-expire and you re-select the article?

Currently, if I read (hit enter on, or use 'n', or whatever) an
article, it gets marked E, which is fine, but then if I hit 'd' to
mark that as read (so it won't get expired), and later move back to
that article and hit enter to look at it, it gets re-marked as
expired, though I'd prefer it had just stayed "read".

I think I'd like read articles to stay read whenever I just re-visit
them, but I'd still want C-k and friends to mark articles as expired.

Thanks

(Using pgnus 0.96.)

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Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: Only marking *non-read* articles as expired with auto-expire.

[Kai Großjohann]

Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> writes:

> Is there a simple way to have gnus not mark read articles as expired
> when you're using auto-expire and you re-select the article?

I have been hit by the same thing.  Here's what I did:

;; Use this for auto-expire only.
(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)

Does this work for you?

kai
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Re: Only marking *non-read* articles as expired with auto-expire.

[Rob Browning]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> I have been hit by the same thing.  Here's what I did:
> 
> ;; Use this for auto-expire only.
> (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)
> 
> Does this work for you?

That's perfect.  I thought I'd seen you post about this before, but I
wasn't able to find it.

This is *really* useful if you're using auto-expire.  I wonder if
there's an appropriate place in the docs/FAQ to mention it.

Thanks much.

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Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930