From: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Cc: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>,
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: *bump* (was: Patch Series: Warping via the registry)
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:48:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2aa96uuyj.fsf_-_@boostpro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2ty7g1euu.fsf@pluto.luannocracy.com>
<bump>
Andy, did my explanation help?
Lars, do you have any feedback on this work? Would you consider
accepting it?
Ted, what about the registry-enabling patch I posted to
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=9691 and how it relates to
this series?
on Mon Oct 10 2011, Dave Abrahams <dave-AT-boostpro.com> wrote:
> on Mon Oct 10 2011, Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun 09 Oct 2011, Dave Abrahams wrote:
>>
>>> This patch series implements the ability to warp to a message via
>>> information stored in the Gnus registry. From a user's point-of-view,
>>> this means that articles brought in from other groups by
>>> gnus-*-refer-* can be used as a jumping-off-point for further
>>> references.
>>
>> You have invented yet another term to confuse gnus users in this patch
>> series, but have not defined what "warp" means.
>
> If you're complaining about the term "warp," I didn't invent it (and
> probably wouldn't have thought of a term that cute).
>
> ,----[ (info "(gnus)Basic Usage") ]
> | The `nnir' group made in this way is an `ephemeral' group, and some
> | changes are not permanent: aside from reading, moving, and deleting,
> | you can't act on the original article. But there is an alternative: you
> | can _warp_ to the original group for the article on the current line
> | with `A W', aka `gnus-warp-to-article'. Even better, the function
> | `gnus-summary-refer-thread', bound by default in summary buffers to `A
> | T', will first warp to the original group before it works its magic and
> | includes all the articles in the thread. From here you can read, move
> | and delete articles, but also copy them, alter article marks, whatever.
> | Go nuts.
> `----
>
>> Please add some documentation to explain the use of this new feature. If
>> you can do so *without* defining new terminology, all the better.
>
> I can do some explaining here, but I'm afraid it wouldn't fit into the
> manual as is. I hope this will be helpful.
>
> Warping is admittedly a little obscure. The reasons are:
>
> - Warping is probably not too useful on its own. Gnus uses it as part
> of the refer-article machinery when doing `A T', `A R', and `^'. The
> idea, I think, is that if you have a group with an article that came
> from somewhere else, the rest of the thread is probably there, too.
> (Note: this is just my best understanding of it having crawled through
> the docs) So when you want to go to, say, the parent of an article,
> it's a good idea to be in that article's original thread.
>
> - Before this patch series, the warp functionality was only available
> from nnir groups, so unless you were an nnir user with
> `gnus-refer-thread-use-nnir' enabled you might not have ever
> encountered it.
>
> This patch series makes it possible to initiate a warp from any group,
> which in turn makes it possible to follow threads starting from
> ephemeral groups other than an nnir group.
>
> Why would you want to do that? The `gnus-goto-article' function I
> posted in the series' introductory email allows me, given just a
> Message-ID, to jump into a buffer containing that message, regardless of
> which group or server the message came from (set up
> gnus-refer-article-method to enable that). That's awesomely powerful,
> but without the patch series, I can't get from that article to its
> entire thread. With the patch series, I can, because gnus will warp me
> to the group from which gnus-summary-refer-article plucked it.
>
> If you want to know why I want to fetch articles by Message-ID in the
> first place, it's because I store references to them in Org files, and
> need to be able to jump from the Org item to the message.
>
> HTH,
--
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-12 14:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-09 4:11 Patch Series: Warping via the registry Dave Abrahams
2011-10-09 4:11 ` [PATCH 1/6] Allow gnus-summary-insert-subject to work in empty groups Dave Abrahams
2011-10-09 4:11 ` [PATCH 2/6] Record information in the registry about each article retrieved Dave Abrahams
2011-10-09 4:11 ` [PATCH 3/6] Add `gnus-select-group-with-message-id' Dave Abrahams
2011-10-09 4:11 ` [PATCH 4/6] Add `gnus-try-warping-via-registry()' Dave Abrahams
2011-10-09 4:11 ` [PATCH 5/6] Enable registry-warping as a fallback if warping via the current backend fails Dave Abrahams
2011-10-09 4:11 ` [PATCH 6/6] Use `gnus-registry-enabled' instead of `gnus-registry-install' Dave Abrahams
2011-10-10 23:09 ` Patch Series: Warping via the registry Andy Moreton
2011-10-11 1:44 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-10-12 14:48 ` Dave Abrahams [this message]
2011-10-12 23:38 ` *bump* Ted Zlatanov
2011-10-16 12:02 ` *bump* again Dave Abrahams
2011-11-03 22:56 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-11-04 0:23 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-11-04 8:36 ` Steinar Bang
2011-11-04 11:26 ` Steinar Bang
2011-11-04 12:35 ` Gnus Git branching strategy for Emacs sync (was: *bump* again) Ted Zlatanov
2011-11-04 15:30 ` *bump* again Dave Abrahams
2011-11-04 16:07 ` Steinar Bang
2011-11-05 5:13 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-11-05 10:09 ` John Wiegley
2011-11-04 12:26 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-10-12 15:04 ` Patch Series: Warping via the registry Andy Moreton
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