Re: gnus-summary-mark-thread-as-expirable

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:02:24 +0200 ecocode <eco@ecocode.net> wrote: 

e> * Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> wrote:
e> |
e> | I would have done it but don't know what's a good value for the prefix
e> | argument to use as a trigger.  Any suggestions?  0 perhaps?

e> What about T E ?

Sorry for responding in Lisp-speak :)

`T E' is the key shortcut you'd like.  What I mean is that
gnus-summary-kill-thread has a prefix argument (it's mapped by default
to `T k'; you press C-u then type a number, then hit `T k' to give that
number to gnus-summary-kill-thread as the prefix argument).  If you
don't pass that number, the prefix argument is null.  This is standard
Emacs behavior and a lot of functions take a prefix argument.

I added an extra option to gnus-summary-kill-thread which is almost
 exactly like the regular null-prefix behavior, but used
 gnus-expirable-mark instead of gnus-killed-mark.  To use it, you don't
 have to play with universal prefixes, just do the following:

1) get latest Gnus from CVS

2) hit `M-C-e' or `T e' on a thread to mark the whole thing expirable.
I used `T e' because `T k' is mapped to gnus-summary-kill-thread and I
wanted to be consistent.

3) if you like the behavior, you can map that to a key by itself, say
C-e:

(define-key gnus-summary-mode-map "\C-e" 'gnus-summary-expire-thread)

Please test and let me know if this works for you.  My testing showed no
problems.  I'll document it once testing is done.

Ted