Re: Gnus-Topic ideas

[steve@miranova.com (Steven L. Baur)]

>>>>> "Jack" == Jack Vinson <jvinson@cheux.ecs.umass.edu> writes:

    Jack> Now that I have gnus topic working with v0.16, I'd like to
    Jack> make some suggestions for more improvements.  (Or should I
    Jack> say "more improvements to this already excellent code?"  :-)

Gnus topics is looking very nice.  I'd like to add the following
suggestions to Jack's.

- gnus-group-topics should be advisory only.  That is it should only
be applied to a group that has not previously been assigned a topic.
As it stands right now, it will override manual reorganization.  As a
bonus, this would make a good default method of assigning new groups
to topics.

- It would be nice to have a set of operations extended to work with
topics.
 * M-g is perhaps the most useful.
 * Narrow to topic (although that may be doable already with hooks).

- A topic should have an assigned score file, topic.SCORE.  In the
score file hierarchy, it should come just ahead of all.SCORE.

- You should be able to assign a face per topic.  All groups for that
topic will appear in that face in the group/topic buffer.  Now that
could look interesting. :-)

For the last two suggestions, it would be acceptable to have them
apply when showing the flat display if the implementation required
it.

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steve@miranova.com baur