From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/29292 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Small complaint about M-g Date: 22 Feb 2000 19:56:03 -0800 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <6eitzht09e.fsf@sloth.netpliance.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035165986 1892 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:06:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:06:26 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FFB5D051F for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 22:57:41 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAB14054; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 21:57:07 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 22 Feb 2000 21:56:27 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA09330 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 21:56:16 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mail.networkone.net (mail.networkone.net [209.144.112.75]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 20C23D0521 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 22:56:23 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 2230 invoked from network); 23 Feb 2000 04:02:19 -0000 Original-Received: from adsl-117-113.ln.networkone.net (HELO reader.ptw.com) (root@209.144.117.113) by mail.networkone.net with SMTP; 23 Feb 2000 04:02:19 -0000 Original-Received: (from reader@localhost) by reader.ptw.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA14149; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 19:56:17 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: reader.ptw.com: reader set sender to reader@newsguy.com using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Chris Richards's message of "22 Feb 2000 15:06:53 -0600" User-Agent: Gnus/5.0804 (Gnus v5.8.4) Emacs/20.5 Original-Lines: 44 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:29292 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:29292 Chris Richards writes: > Jussi Yli-Urpo writes: > > all those mails that I haven't read yet (of course ticking > > those would also work but it just too easy to forget to do). > > That's the power of gnus. I am a recent gnus convert and I quickly > learned to 'tick' articles of relevance. Perhaps if you didn't tick a > message, then it was not that important to begin with... My original post was not looking for a way to `tick' articles. I like the way gnus hides read articles after closing a group. What I complained mildly about was gnus being so rowdy about doing a rescan while inside a group. In that instance only, I may not want read articles to disappear. It was that problem that Jussi's comments addressed. If you are a new user, you may find after lengthy usage that `ticking' can get to be a pain in the butt. Unless you are very judicious about removing ticks later, then you eventually begin to accumulate vast quantities of `ticked' hence, visible, articles cluttering up your groups. You may begin to loose track of why you ticked things if you read lots of groups... You can end up with messy Summary buffers after a time. Many seasoned users have reported here, and on gnu.emacs.gnus that using `dormant' is really a better choice since they also linger but can be hidden or not as you choose. (`/ D' and `/ d'.. limiting) > Though, I am about to write a hook to auto-cache ticked articles. To > each his own. > No need to extend yourself gnus has such a provision for the asking. >>From Gnus info: To turn caching on, set `gnus-use-cache' to `t'. By default, all articles ticked or marked as dormant will then be copied over to your local cache (`gnus-cache-directory'). Whether this cache is flat or hierarchal is controlled by the `gnus-use-long-file-name' variable, as usual. A simple (setq gnus-use-cache t) will do what you want.