Re: Gnus is very slow in displaying headers.

[Derrell.Lipman@UnwiredUniverse.com]

Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de> writes:

> Some people like to keep lots of articles marked as unread, especially
> for mail, so that they do not lose track of the context.  But I think
> that it works well to (setq gnus-fetch-old-headers t): this leads to
> Gnus showing the complete thread, if there is an unread article in
> that thread.  This way, I get the complete context of new discussions,
> without having to keep all old articles of this discussion unread.

I used to do that.  Based on a previous thread in the ding list about slow
presentation of a group, I now have the following comment and setting in my
.gnus file:

    (setq
     ;; Show headers of previous messages in a thread
     ;; Don't do this; it greatly slows down presentation of the group
     gnus-fetch-old-headers			nil
    )

My recollection was that the difference in speed, disabling this, was
remarkable.

Derrell