From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/40951 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: can back end keep track of *all* group info? Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 23:32:56 +0100 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=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035176426 3657 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:00:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:00:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Paul Grayson , ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 20676 invoked from network); 22 Dec 2001 22:36:05 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 22 Dec 2001 22:36:05 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16HujU-0004Qo-00; Sat, 22 Dec 2001 16:35:08 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 22 Dec 2001 16:34:57 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA29488 for ; Sat, 22 Dec 2001 16:34:46 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 20662 invoked by alias); 22 Dec 2001 22:34:52 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 20657 invoked from network); 22 Dec 2001 22:34:51 -0000 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net (HELO yxa.extundo.com) (217.13.230.178) by gnus.org with SMTP; 22 Dec 2001 22:34:51 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain ([195.42.214.241]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id fBMMYh3O003989; Sat, 22 Dec 2001 23:34:44 +0100 Original-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=C3=9Fjohann?=) In-Reply-To: (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "Sat, 22 Dec 2001 22:02:50 +0100") Mail-Copies-To: nobody Original-Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40951 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40951 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=C3=83=C2=9Fjohann) writes: > I think if you just change the code for the %y spec in > gnus-group-line-format to see if the backend has told you the right > number and to use that number in lieu of the current estimate based > on min and max article number, then you should be fine. Yes. I don't think this is very difficult. > Alas, I don't know what exactly is that mechanism which allows the > backend to report the %y number directly. Simon? I think you were > the one telling me this. I think I was thinking of nnchoke-request-group, but that isn't really called until the group is entered. Hm. Could we extend nnchoke-request-list perhaps? If the backend knows the total number of articles in the group it can report it. It should be a optional parameter.