Re: Never mind

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

> A new type of tick mark, "marked for download" should be created.  Setting
> this mark on an article will put it in line to be retrieved from the
> server;

Yes, this is implemented.

> setting this mark on a group (in the group buffer) will cause all
> articles in the group to be marked for download.

Uhm...  This would be for groups that aren't usually covered by the
agent, I guess?

The Gnus agent now works on a virtual server basis.  You go to the
server buffer and add the servers you want to the agent.  Then (the
next time you ask it to download) it'll do all the groups belonging to
those servers.

> The scoring routines or an extension thereof should be capable of
> setting this mark in some fashion.

I don't see why.  If you want downloading based on scoring, you just
use the agent scoring mechanism.

> It should *NOT* be tied to the 'D' key in any fashion. :) How about
> '@'?

I've added a tertiary mark that's bound to `J #'.  (All the agent
commands in all buffers are on the `J' submap.)

> Some means of readilly distinguishing downloaded messages from those for
> which only headers exist locally needs to be created, even on displays
> incapable of color or font changes.

Yes.  The way it does this now is by marking the undownloaded articles
as read.

> It should also be possible to "clump" downloaded articles at the top
> (or bottom, or maybe wherever) of the summary buffer, optionally
> overriding threading.

I think that wouldn't be very useful.

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