From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/23487 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: some mail annoyances [deleting mail] Date: 23 Jun 1999 05:13:48 -0700 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035161209 2222 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:46:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:46:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Per Abrahamsen , Per Bothner , ding@gnus.org 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 IAA03252 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 08:19:11 -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 HAB14876; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 07:15:01 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 23 Jun 1999 07:15:30 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA27341 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 07:15:17 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from halfdome.holdit.com (merlyn@halfdome.holdit.com [209.102.105.64]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA03192 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 08:14:13 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from merlyn@localhost) by halfdome.holdit.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id FAA03710; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 05:13:48 -0700 Original-To: Jaap-Henk Hoepman In-Reply-To: Jaap-Henk Hoepman's message of "23 Jun 1999 09:10:56 +0200" Original-Lines: 50 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.44/Emacs 20.3 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23487 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23487 >>>>> "Jaap-Henk" == Jaap-Henk Hoepman writes: Jaap-Henk> But if you do not want to auto-expire certain groups (like Jaap-Henk> I do not like to auto-expire my inbox), then I agree with Jaap-Henk> Per that the most common command when reading mail is Jaap-Henk> (generalizing slightly :-) "do something with this message Jaap-Henk> and go to the next one" where in gnus, do-something is Jaap-Henk> either a mark of some kind, or moving the article. Moving Jaap-Henk> does go to the next unread message; marking does not. It Jaap-Henk> would be nice if all mark commands had a twin that moves to Jaap-Henk> the next or previous (un)read article (I think Kai Jaap-Henk> mentioned this a few days ago), or a variable Jaap-Henk> gnus-mark-commands-should-move with possible values nil, Jaap-Henk> forward, forward-unread, backward, backward-unread Jaap-Henk> Jaap-Henk Still running qgnus, here's what I do: (defun MERLYN-gnus-expiry-wait-function (ng) "give list.clip a short wait, other lists 7 days, and others marked E 1" (cond ((string-match "^list\\.clip" ng) 1) ((string-match "^list" ng) 7) (t 1))) (setq nnmail-expiry-wait-function 'MERLYN-gnus-expiry-wait-function gnus-total-expirable-newsgroups "^nnml:list\\." ) And I bring all my mailing lists into nnml:list.ding, nnml:list.p5p, etc, where the default is to toss seen articles after 7 days. Other mail groups are expire only when I ask for it. Then it's very visual to me that I can just page forward like a newsgroup in anything called "list.", but I need to hit "E" in anything that isn't. Occasionally, I get it backwards. It does no harm to hit E in a list.* group, but I can sometimes lose from view things in my inbox (not a list.*), so I use ^U = occasionally. This has worked quite well for the two years I've been doing it. Hopefully, the names of these functions have not changed in terry gnus. (Which I'm still threatening to switch to Very Soon Now.) -- Name: Randal L. Schwartz / Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 Keywords: Perl training, UNIX[tm] consulting, video production, skiing, flying Email: Snail: (Call) PGP-Key: (finger merlyn@teleport.com) Web: My Home Page! Quote: "I'm telling you, if I could have five lines in my .sig, I would!" -- me