Re: CODE: Hide groups with few unread articles

[Leon <sdl.web@gmail.com>]

Mark Plaksin <happy@usg.edu> writes:

> Here's some code that lets you hide groups when they have just a few unread
> articles.  You can set the threshold on a per-topic and/or per-group basis.
>
> I use levels to separate my groups by priority but I am subscribed to a lot
> of groups so each level contains a lot of groups.  I'm easily distracted so
> I wanted a way to hide groups without many unread articles.  That way when
> I check for new messages I don't end up reading two or three articles in
> each of 25 groups.  Instead I generally end up reading one or two groups
> with 25 articles each.
>
> It requires a small patch to gnus-group.el which allows you to specify the
> predicate to use in the funcall to gnus-group-prepare-function.  That's the
> first attachment.  The second attachment does the rest of the work.
>
> You get a new group parameter called gnus-distraction-threshold.  If a
> group has fewer than gnus-distraction-threshold unread articles, it won't
> be displayed.  gnus-distraction-threshold defaults to 1 so nothing should
> change unless you set the threshold somewhere.  As with any group parameter
> you can set it for a topic and have it apply to all groups in the topic.
> By default groups with ticked articles are always displayed.
>
> Two key bindings are turned on in the Group buffer:
> - C-cd toggles distraction prevention on and off
> - C-ct toggles the display of groups with ticked articles
>
> I've only been playing with this for a few days so comments and suggestions
> are very welcome!
>
A feature that I have been looking for! Wonderful.

Does it work for topic i.e hide a topic when the total number of
unread articles within a topic is below threshold?

Regards,
-- 
Leon