Mark articles/replies in thread in which I replied previously

Mark articles/replies in thread in which I replied previously

[Björn Bidar]

Hello,

I want to mark articles/replies in a thread that I replied previously so
I don't loose track of threads I replied too.

Is there the possibility of doing so with Gnus or if so feasible with
Sieve if that is better?

Good weekend,

Björn

Re: Mark articles/replies in thread in which I replied previously

[Eric S Fraga]

Response below/inline for email Björn Bidar wrote:
> (original email sent  2 Aug 2024 at 18:32)
> 
> Hello,
>
> I want to mark articles/replies in a thread that I replied previously so
> I don't loose track of threads I replied too.

Gnus does that already by default?  I see an "A" in the list of marks
for any article/email I have responded to.

Or maybe I've misunderstood your question?

-- 
Eric S Fraga via gnus (Emacs 31.0.50 2024-07-31) on Debian 12.5

Re: Mark articles/replies in thread in which I replied previously

[Björn Bidar]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> Response below/inline for email Björn Bidar wrote:
>> (original email sent  2 Aug 2024 at 18:32)
>> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> I want to mark articles/replies in a thread that I replied previously so
>> I don't loose track of threads I replied too.
>
> Gnus does that already by default?  I see an "A" in the list of marks
> for any article/email I have responded to.
>
> Or maybe I've misunderstood your question?

Yes it does that but that only applies to direct replies but not if
other replies to the thread exist and thus the articles will be grouped
together.

I want that the whole thread will have the reply mark and not just to
the exact message I replied to.

Re: Mark articles/replies in thread in which I replied previously

[Dan Christensen]

> I want to mark articles/replies in a thread that I replied previously so
> I don't loose track of threads I replied too.

I increase the score of threads that I reply to using:

  (add-hook 'message-sent-hook 'gnus-score-followup-thread)

The docstring says:

  Add SCORE to all later articles in the thread the current buffer is
  part of.

This doesn't mark them, but might be useful instead of that.

Dan

Re: Mark articles/replies in thread in which I replied previously

[Björn Bidar]

Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> writes:

>> I want to mark articles/replies in a thread that I replied previously so
>> I don't loose track of threads I replied too.
>
> I increase the score of threads that I reply to using:
>
>   (add-hook 'message-sent-hook 'gnus-score-followup-thread)
>
> The docstring says:
>
>   Add SCORE to all later articles in the thread the current buffer is
>   part of.
>
> This doesn't mark them, but might be useful instead of that.
>
> Dan

That sounds like a good in between change.

Thank you.

Re: Mark articles/replies in thread in which I replied previously

[James Thomas]

Björn Bidar wrote:

> I want to mark articles/replies in a thread that I replied previously so
> I don't loose track of threads I replied too.

> I want that the whole thread will have the reply mark and not just to
> the exact message I replied to.

This works:

/ r
M P b
M-& / T

and if required: M P b

(But I think I saw the scope for at least one bug report, while figuring
it out...)

Regards,
James

Re: Mark articles/replies in thread in which I replied previously

[Björn Bidar]

James Thomas <jimjoe@gmx.net> writes:

> Björn Bidar wrote:
>
>> I want to mark articles/replies in a thread that I replied previously so
>> I don't loose track of threads I replied too.
>
>> I want that the whole thread will have the reply mark and not just to
>> the exact message I replied to.
>
> This works:
>
> / r
> M P b
> M-& / T

How would you do it in a function? Say in a reply send message hook?

> and if required: M P b
>
> (But I think I saw the scope for at least one bug report, while figuring
> it out...)


At least? For what exactly?


PS: Why are all the Gnus backends prefixed with nn?

Re: Mark articles/replies in thread in which I replied previously

[James Thomas]

Björn Bidar wrote:

> James Thomas <jimjoe@gmx.net> writes:
>
>> Björn Bidar wrote:
>>
>>> I want to mark articles/replies in a thread that I replied previously so
>>> I don't loose track of threads I replied too.
>>
>>> I want that the whole thread will have the reply mark and not just to
>>> the exact message I replied to.
>>
>> This works:
>>
>> / r
>> M P b
>> M-& / T
>
> How would you do it in a function? Say in a reply send message hook?

Well, every command in Emacs, including these, does have an underlying
function; and if even that's bothersome there's keyboard macros.

But this feels like the 'XY problem': Are you trying to do a 'mail
merge'? If so, you could try something like this:

M P b
M-& R
M-x ibuffer
% n *unsent RET (or: % m message RET)
(kill the reply text)
W (progn (goto-char (point-max)) (yank) (message-send-and-exit))

>> and if required: M P b
>>
>> (But I think I saw the scope for at least one bug report, while figuring
>> it out...)
>
>
> At least? For what exactly?

Well, i'm wondering why this doesn't seem to work as advertised:

(setq gnus-process-mark-toggle nil)
/ r
M P b
/ w
M-& T #

> PS: Why are all the Gnus backends prefixed with nn?

Started with 'nntp', which was legitimate.

Regards,
James