Re: nnir, gnus-goto-article and such

[Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>]

on Wed Sep 28 2011, Ted Zlatanov <tzz-AT-lifelogs.com> wrote:

>>> or by subject, or by sender?  
>
> DA> You can't split by subject or sender without the registry?!  You're
> DA> kidding, right?  Like I said, I never ask Gnus to shuffle mail into
> DA> different folders for me but that seems pretty basic.
>
> No, I mean it will split to the same group as other articles with the
> same subject or sender.  So if I put your mails in "dave" it will figure
> out it should keep putting new ones in there.

...which always seemed wrong to me.  Some subject lines (e.g. "FYI") are
so common that it's not a good guide to threading.  Since the message
has References: and In-Reply-To: headers, why not use those?

>>> It lets the user keep registry marks?  Are those not exploitative
>>> enough?
>
> DA> What's a user going to *do* with registry marks?  That's another tool
> DA> whose real utility escapes me.
>
> It lets the user define any marks they want, without reconfiguring Gnus
> and without storing them in the newsrc.eld, by message-ID and not
> article number.

IIRC, IMAP lets you do that anyway?  But anyway, again, why would I want
to define new marks?  I guess I can think of a use-case, but marks that
don't follow me to other mail clients are pretty limited.

>>> (defun gnus-registry-handle-action (id from to subject sender
>>> &optional recipients)
>
> DA> Umm, sorry.  That function isn't documented.  How do I use it?  How
> DA> would I get the group that gnus-summary-refer-article finds the message
> DA> in into the registry?  I don't even see a parameter for group.
>
> id = message ID, a string
> from = source group, nil in your case for a new article

nil is not useful to me; the whole point of this exercise is to record
the group associated with an article.

What I'd want to do with the registry is get gnus-summary-refer-article
to put in the registry the group in which it finds the article, so
gnus-warp-to-article will go to *that* group when I try to get to the
whole thread.

> to = destination group, your group

I don't think I want gnus to remember that the article is in my group.
I want it to be like an nnir group, where Gnus remembers the group in
which the article was originally found.

Note: nnir doesn't use the registry, but has its *own* record of which
group was the source of each article.  Why?  Dunno.

> subject, sender, receipients = strings
>
> The group name is fully qualified IIRC.

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