From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/13561 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Justin Sheehy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus bugs and some annoyances ... Date: 11 Jan 1998 21:36:21 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035152903 9861 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:28:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:28:23 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA29620 for ; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 18:36:45 -0800 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (root@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA10933 for ; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 20:39:34 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAH06843; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 20:39:43 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 11 Jan 1998 20:38:45 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA06830 for ; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 20:38:38 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 19391 invoked by uid 504); 12 Jan 1998 02:38:26 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 19388 invoked from network); 12 Jan 1998 02:38:26 -0000 Original-Received: from linus.mitre.org (129.83.10.1) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 12 Jan 1998 02:38:26 -0000 Original-Received: from caffeine.mitre.org (caffeine [129.83.10.136]) by linus.mitre.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA26160 for ; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 21:36:23 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by caffeine.mitre.org (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id VAA23370; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 21:36:22 -0500 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Stefan Waldherr's message of "11 Jan 1998 12:47:09 -0500" Original-Lines: 45 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.22/Emacs 20.2 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13561 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13561 Stefan Waldherr writes: > I mark all articles again with `#' and move it back to `swa'. > Now the articles numbers start with >> 1. I would have expected, > that they start with 1, since the group is empty. > This is bug #2. This is not a bug. There is no reason for them to start at 1, as Gnus is the only thing that should care about their actual numbers. What you have managed to do, though, is pack them so that there are no gaps between article numbers. > the way gnus determines the number of articles with maxn-minn isn't > particular smart since you could have deleted some articles in between. Is > there a particular reason why the number of articles are determined that way? Yep. It is a decent approximation and is only used when a fast approximation is (generally) better than a slow exact count. > It is annoying because I have one folder with four mails and -- you > might have guessed it --- with very high article numbers. Now, any > time I enter this folder, gnus asks me `How many articles...'? I would guess that this is not because of high article numbers, but that it is because the articles have significant gaps between their numbers. > MH has a nice feature where you can pack folder (pack as in renumber > all articles so that there is no gap in the sequence of > numbers). Could such a thing be of use for gnus? Certainly. In fact, you have already done so yourself. Moving them from swa->swa would also have done the trick, and it would be simpler than swa->temp->swa. -- Justin Sheehy In a cloud bones of steel.