From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/22634 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matt Armstrong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Groups which have new mails Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 13:35:24 -0700 (PDT) Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035160518 30373 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:35:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:35:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA20681 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 23:09:08 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAB16980; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 22:04:52 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 19 Apr 1999 22:04:43 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from epithumia.math.uh.edu (epithumia.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.2]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA19636 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 22:04:37 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from tibbs@localhost) by epithumia.math.uh.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA09401 for ding@hpc.uh.edu; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 22:03:52 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA18922 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 20:34:52 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from bloober.mattdav.bogus (mail@adsl-216-102-197-223.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.102.197.223]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA17110 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 21:34:44 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from matt by bloober.mattdav.bogus with local-smtp (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 10ZhEr-0000i1-00; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 13:35:25 -0700 X-Sender: matt@bloober.mattdav.bogus Original-To: Danny Siu In-Reply-To: Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:22634 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:22634 On 19 Apr 1999, Danny Siu wrote: > That is exactly what I do. Why not? I can't find better way of keeping the > articles I need to re-visit or reply. I know about the read marks and tick > mark. I use tick marks for articles I want to keep in the group till hell > freezes. I don't use read marks at all because 'C-u SPC' (to see all > articles) on a group with many articles is VERY slow (at least for nnfolder > anyways. see ). I explicitly bind 'd' to > gnus-summary-mark-as-expirable for article deletion. All unread articles > are the one I need to re-visit or reply. Also, movement commands doesn't > work well on read articles ('n'/'p' moves between unread articles only). > > I think you are right in ; I haven't > fully adjusted to the Gnus Way of reading mail after 4 years of using it. > > I wonder how people use marks on mail groups for the purpose of keeping > articles and indicating an need-to-be-late article. If I want to save a message for a long time, I move it to a different group. I have a whole slew of save.* groups. If I want to mark a message as a "must keep and do something with it soon" then I tick it with !. Periodically, I move my ticked articles into save.* groups or reply to them or whatever. Having ticked articles in a group is annoying because Gnus shows the groups to you whether you have new mail in them or not. This is good incentive for me to keep them to a minimum. Articles without a read mark are really "new" -- I've never read them. With this scheme, Gnus just shows me relevant things -- new mail or stuff I should act on "soon." I've played around with caching articles in groups, but it is too implicit. I always forget I have cached articles since I have to remember to do "/ *" to see them. I also have this lingering fear that they will go away. The save.* group thing works out better for me. ------------------------ Come to think of it, I think it'd be nice if Gnus had a setting where it would show by default only groups with unread articles (ticked articles alone wouldn't be enough to have it show up). Maybe it already does...