From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/40201 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Can Gnus watch a group for me? Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 08:10:42 -0800 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=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035175788 32062 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:49:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:49:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Christoph Conrad , ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 18358 invoked from network); 11 Nov 2001 16:16:44 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 11 Nov 2001 16:16:44 -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 162xHJ-0005SL-00; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 10:16:14 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 11 Nov 2001 10:15:56 -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 KAA13523 for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 10:15:41 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 18349 invoked by alias); 11 Nov 2001 16:15:53 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 18344 invoked from network); 11 Nov 2001 16:15:53 -0000 Original-Received: from smtp.newsguy.com (HELO newsguy.com) (209.155.56.71) by gnus.org with SMTP; 11 Nov 2001 16:15:53 -0000 Original-Received: from reader.local.lan (adsl-66.51.210.228.dslextreme.com [66.51.210.228]) by newsguy.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA13671; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 08:15:20 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: (from reader@localhost) by reader.local.lan (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fABGFJt08770; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 08:15:19 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: reader.local.lan: reader set sender to reader@newsguy.com using -f Original-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) In-Reply-To: (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "Sun, 11 Nov 2001 12:20:32 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.1 (i586-pc-linux-gnu) Original-Lines: 40 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40201 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40201 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes: >> Christoph Writes: >> I would like to have that feature for a thread also ("watch thread" is >> quite helpful in netscape messenger). The only feature i am missing. > > Actually, I think I want a "watch thread" feature; I just didn't > think of that term. Kai, I did'nt notice any comments on my proposal that nnkiboze could do this. But from what I remember of it, and as I said; I never really got it working as it is supposed to, it would be even more powerfull than a thread watch thing inside a group. Isn't nnkiboze supposed to: Find subjects (or other items matching a regex [including body I think]) in a list of groups matching a regex. And then build an ephemeral or some other non-standard group that contains those messages (really just pointers to the desired messages in there respective groups) This is something like a thread watch, but more powerfull because it operates across a series of groups. Unless I misunderstand nnkiboze entirely, then what one would see would be a new message indicater in nnkiboze:WATCHED_THREADS that when you open it you find your self in the group it came from and in the tread it is part of. I've often thought that nnkiboze was very underrated part of gnus, maybe because it isn't that easy to use. Or maybe the code is neglected. Also in the old days before mass use of DSL and other high bandwidth connections it may have been just too slow for home use. Sorry if I'm misunderstanding what you want, but with your fine attention to detail, I suspect something could be done with existing nnkiboze code that would make a very nice addition to gnus.