From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/16039 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Justin Sheehy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Getting the right displayed number of articles Date: 13 Aug 1998 21:04:10 -0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035154974 25484 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:02:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:02:54 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org (gwyn.tux.org [207.96.122.8]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA22135 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 18:13:35 -0700 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA06660 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 21:07:22 -0400 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAT11281; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 19:37:35 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 13 Aug 1998 20:04:25 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA20897 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 20:04:16 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from linus.mitre.org (linus.mitre.org [129.83.10.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA23982 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 21:04:13 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from caffeine.mitre.org (caffeine [129.83.10.136]) by linus.mitre.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA16185 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 21:04:11 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from justin@localhost) by caffeine.mitre.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA19956; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 21:04:10 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Harry Putnam's message of "12 Aug 1998 14:59:48 -0700" Original-Lines: 41 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.34/Emacs 20.2 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:16039 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:16039 Harry Putnam writes: > Having moved some 900 messages out of a ding-list group, leaving some > 300 in there. The number of articles displayed is still 1200 > somehting. Hm. The first thing to note is that the number in the *Group* buffer is not the number of articles in the group. It is the numeric difference between the highest and lowest numbered articles in the group. Iff all of your articles are contiguously numbered, then this is the "number of articles". Otherwise, it isn't > Tried the same sequence again now it shows 1645 -- I'm either getting > a lot of mail awful quick or something is wacky. Nothing is wacky. You have a low-numbered article that isn't being moved, for whatever reason. > Everytime I try to redo the numbering with moving technique, the > number displayed increases by the 200+ that are still there. Yep. > Also a quick line count of the files in ~/Mail/ding-mail/* from > 'dired' shows 217 files. The displayed count is now up to 1651. Right, but what are the lowest and highest-numbered files? > I've used the 'moving to same group' technique before on other groups > successfully so having a bit of trouble seeing what is different here. Looking at the files in the directory (and the active file) will tell you for certain. -- Justin Sheehy In a cloud bones of steel.