From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/22657 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Justin Sheehy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Groups which have new mails Date: 20 Apr 1999 10:56:50 -0400 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 1035160537 30482 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:35:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:35:37 +0000 (UTC) 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 KAA01892 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 10:58:02 -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 JAB23241; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 09:57:15 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 20 Apr 1999 09:57:46 -0500 (CDT) 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 JAA29774 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 09:57:36 -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 KAA01881 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 10:57:28 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from faron.mitre.org (faron [129.83.10.2]) by linus.mitre.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA13813 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 10:56:51 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from justin@localhost) by faron.mitre.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA02919; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 10:56:50 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Danny Siu's message of "19 Apr 1999 18:10:46 -0700" Original-Lines: 52 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070083 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.83) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:22657 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:22657 Danny Siu writes: > Justin> You don't do something silly like keeping messages that you've > Justin> read marked as unread, do you? > > That is exactly what I do. Why not? Because read messages are read messages. :-) > I can't find better way of keeping the articles I need to re-visit > or reply. Between unread, read, ticked and dormant, I find that I have all I need. > I use tick marks for articles I want to keep in the group till hell > freezes. This is what I use the dormant mark for. I use the tick mark for articles that I have seen, but need to do something with. > 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. For all of my normal mail groups, I use nnml. It is the fastest backend for opening large groups. > I explicitly bind 'd' to gnus-summary-mark-as-expirable for article > deletion. I use total-expiry. Read articles will eventually be deleted. > All unread articles are the one I need to re-visit or reply. For me, unread articles are unread. Ticked messages still require some action from me. > Also, movement commands doesn't work well on read articles ('n'/'p' > moves between unread articles only). Right, and sometimes that is what you want. If you want to move between articles regardless of readedness, use N and P. -- Justin Sheehy In a cloud bones of steel.