Re: some mail annoyances

[dsg@mitre.org (David S. Goldberg)]

> I switched to pgnus not too long ago [...]

>From an earlier version of gnus?  If so, you've been living with this
badness for way too long.  Most of the suggestions below have been in
my .emacs since red gnus, maybe even as far back as September.

> * If in the Summary group, I do M-g in my mail group to check for
> new mail, after new mail is read, point does to the *following*
> group.  That's silly default; point should stay at the group I just
> got more mail for.

(setq gnus-goto-next-group-when-activating nil)

fixes this to dtrt.

> * If I enter a group, point normally goes to the first unread
> message.  But if (say) there is only a single new message, that
> message becomes the last line in the window, while point goes to the
> *middle* of the window.  When the list of ticked messages is long,
> it starts showing the first old message, rather than the first new
> message.

I think you want (setq gnus-auto-center-summary nil) though I'm not
sure the (IMHO bad) behavior this setting fixed for me is the same as
what you're seeing.
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