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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: [Various] I'm starting this discussion (was "gnus-uu-digest-mail-forward (S-O-m) nit")
Date: 21 Apr 2000 01:29:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m31z40tkqp.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <svsnwg8k2a.fsf@hodge.primus.com>

Steve Harris <sharris@primus.com> writes:

> Yeah, I noticed that. It's an unfortunate trade-off, because as a user
> I wouldn't have noticed that we're reusing the fragmented message
> collation routine to figure out which messages I'm referring to
> here. I can see how this sequence-based grouping is useful for
> uudecoding, but the basic "digest and forward" command doesn't
> necessarily have anything to do with fragmented messages. The naive
> user (me, in this case) suffers as a result of this code reuse.

Yes -- that command behaves the way it does for hysterical raisins.
(The command debuted as a part of gnus-uu.)

> So if I want to be able to digest and mail an entire sub-thread, is
> there some quick way to process-mark the sub-thread and get them all
> digested in the right order?

`T # S O m'.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen



  reply	other threads:[~2000-04-20 23:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-02-24 17:07 Steven Elliot Harris
2000-04-20 20:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2000-04-20 22:49   ` Steve Harris
2000-04-20 23:29     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2000-04-21  2:31       ` Steve Harris

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