star in the group buffer

star in the group buffer

[Uwe Brauer]

Hi

Some of my groups look like this

*          0: nnimap+UCMgmail:MBOX

I am not sure what the star indicates. I thought unread messages, but
when I visit the group I don't see any unread message.

Does it mean it contains ticked messages?

Regards

Uwe Brauer 

Re: star in the group buffer

[Adam Sjøgren]

Uwe writes:

> *          0: nnimap+UCMgmail:MBOX
>
> I am not sure what the star indicates. I thought unread messages, but
> when I visit the group I don't see any unread message.
>
> Does it mean it contains ticked messages?

If I have groups that contain ticked messages, they show up with a star,
so I think the answer is "yes".

Groups with unread messages are shown with number of unread messages and
in bold for me.


  Best regards,

    Adam

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Re: star in the group buffer

[Tassilo Horn]

Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

> Some of my groups look like this
>
> *          0: nnimap+UCMgmail:MBOX
>
> I am not sure what the star indicates. I thought unread messages, but
> when I visit the group I don't see any unread message.

See `gnus-group-line-format' and (info "(gnus) Group Line Specification").
Most probably, it is:

  %M    Only marked articles (character, "*" or " ")

Bye,
Tassilo

Re: star in the group buffer

[Gijs Hillenius]

On 24 September 2021 10:15 Uwe Brauer, wrote:

> Hi
>
> Some of my groups look like this
>
> *          0: nnimap+UCMgmail:MBOX
>
> I am not sure what the star indicates. I thought unread messages, but
> when I visit the group I don't see any unread message.
>
> Does it mean it contains ticked messages?

Perhaps these are groups you set to be always visible in the Group buffer?


Use the G p or the G c command to edit group parameters of a group. (G
p presents you with a Lisp-based interface, G c presents you with a
Customize-like interface.

add or set (visible . t)




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Re: star in the group buffer

[Eric S Fraga]

On Friday, 24 Sep 2021 at 10:15, Uwe Brauer wrote:
> I am not sure what the star indicates. I thought unread messages, but
> when I visit the group I don't see any unread message.

When I see this, it means that I have a summary buffer open for the
group already.

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Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.5 on Debian 11.0

Re: star in the group buffer

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Sun, 26 Sep 2021 16:45:16 +0100, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> said:

    Eric> On Friday, 24 Sep 2021 at 10:15, Uwe Brauer wrote:
    >> I am not sure what the star indicates. I thought unread messages, but
    >> when I visit the group I don't see any unread message.

    Eric> When I see this, it means that I have a summary buffer open for the
    Eric> group already.

That does happen, but the star is then placed between the article
count and the group name by default.

Robert
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Re: star in the group buffer

[Eric S Fraga]

On Monday, 27 Sep 2021 at 11:24, Robert Pluim wrote:
> That does happen, but the star is then placed between the article
> count and the group name by default.

It doesn't for me but I guess that's because I've customized
gnus-group-line-format.  So, looking at that variable, the * (at the
start of the line, based on the default setting of that variable) would
seem to be indicating that the group has only marked articles?

I'm not sure I understand what that means in practice.

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