Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Nov 29 2010,Dan Christensen wrote:
>> Maybe it's worth asking the user, since deletion is permanent?  This is
>> done in gnus-summary-delete-article if gnus-novice-user is set.  Since
>> that's the only occurrence of that variable in gnus-sum.el, maybe you
>> could just set that variable in nnir groups??  Or maybe you want a
>> customized question:  "Deleting articles will delete them from the
>> original groups.  Proceed?"
>>
>
> I second this.  Though, I think there might be use cases where people
> might want to only delete in the searched articles to keep the search
> list sane or refine it further by simply deleting the matches that
> were false positives.  That's within the search context and not
> permanent deletion.
>

Maybe binding C-k or the like to do this here would make sense?

Rupert