* TODO suggestion: Cancel <number of articles> limit
@ 1998-03-16 2:21 Hallvard B Furuseth
1998-03-19 13:15 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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From: Hallvard B Furuseth @ 1998-03-16 2:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
Once in a while, I wish for a command to cancel the <number of articles>
limit which is taken from the prefix argument when the group is entered.
It should not hide old articles, but it would make `/ D' and `/ *'
display all dormant / cached articles instead those inside the <number
of articles> limit. It would have to show all ticked articles, since
there is no `gnus-summary-limit-include-ticked' command. I don't care
if what it does about unread articles that were excluded by the old
limit; my interest is in the case when I'm looking at old articles.
What do people use that limit for, anyway? It's good when I don't want
Gnus to show all the *unread* articles, but it's never what I want when
I use it to read recent *old* articles.
I thought of this because of the recent `show dormants' thread --
The TODO list contains the item
* command to display all dormant articles.
which I think is due to me. Please erase that item and replace it with
my suggestion above; then `/ D' can be used to dispaly all dormants.
--
Hallvard
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* Re: TODO suggestion: Cancel <number of articles> limit
1998-03-16 2:21 TODO suggestion: Cancel <number of articles> limit Hallvard B Furuseth
@ 1998-03-19 13:15 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-03-20 14:07 ` Hallvard B Furuseth
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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 1998-03-19 13:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> writes:
> Once in a while, I wish for a command to cancel the <number of articles>
> limit which is taken from the prefix argument when the group is entered.
Isn't that what `Z R' is for?
> What do people use that limit for, anyway?
If I have a group with 25000 articles and only want the last 10.
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larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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* Re: TODO suggestion: Cancel <number of articles> limit
1998-03-19 13:15 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
@ 1998-03-20 14:07 ` Hallvard B Furuseth
1998-03-23 13:07 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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From: Hallvard B Furuseth @ 1998-03-20 14:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>> Once in a while, I wish for a command to cancel the <number of articles>
>> limit which is taken from the prefix argument when the group is entered.
>
> Isn't that what `Z R' is for?
No, I mean - don't delete the articles that *are* in the buffer, just
don't limit anymore. That is, errrm... Maybe this is what I mean:
I don't want the "number of articles" limit to affect articles that are
marked somehow: ticked, dormant, cached articles.
Yea. That's it. Maybe. Something like that, anyway.
>> What do people use that limit for, anyway?
>
> If I have a group with 25000 articles and only want the last 10.
Yup. I was thinking of *keeping* the limit after the group has been
entered and the initial articles to display have been chosen, sort of.
See above.
--
Hallvard
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* Re: TODO suggestion: Cancel <number of articles> limit
1998-03-20 14:07 ` Hallvard B Furuseth
@ 1998-03-23 13:07 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-04-02 2:43 ` Hallvard B Furuseth
1998-04-02 2:52 ` Hallvard B Furuseth
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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 1998-03-23 13:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> writes:
> I don't want the "number of articles" limit to affect articles that are
> marked somehow: ticked, dormant, cached articles.
You want `C-u 1 0 RET' to fetch the last ten unread articles, plus all
ticked, dormant and cached articles?
Uhm... It's not something that I would want to use, I think.
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larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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* Re: TODO suggestion: Cancel <number of articles> limit
1998-03-23 13:07 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
@ 1998-04-02 2:43 ` Hallvard B Furuseth
1998-04-24 19:30 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-04-02 2:52 ` Hallvard B Furuseth
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From: Hallvard B Furuseth @ 1998-04-02 2:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> writes:
>
>> I don't want the "number of articles" limit to affect articles that are
>> marked somehow: ticked, dormant, cached articles.
>
> You want `C-u 1 0 RET' to fetch the last ten unread articles, plus all
> ticked, dormant and cached articles?
No, the last ten unread articles, plus all ticked articles.
`/D' and `/*' would fetch all dormant and cached articles.
I want the "max number of articles" limit to be weaker than the "fetch
all dormants/ticked/cached" limit.
> Uhm... It's not something that I would want to use, I think.
So how *do* you check out a single two-weeks-old dormant article in a
high-volume group? Catchup, mark one article as unread, fetch that
unread article, and `/D'?
--
Hallvard
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* Re: TODO suggestion: Cancel <number of articles> limit
1998-03-23 13:07 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-04-02 2:43 ` Hallvard B Furuseth
@ 1998-04-02 2:52 ` Hallvard B Furuseth
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From: Hallvard B Furuseth @ 1998-04-02 2:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
> Uhm... It's not something that I would want to use, I think.
Did you notice that this is nearly the "Seeing just the cached articles"
thread in another guise? Looks like what we are all asking for is a
command "enter a group without getting any articles (except ticked ones,
maybe)". Without having to give that pesky prefix argument the way it
works now. Which would let us use `/*' and `/D' (and /!:-).
--
Hallvard
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* Re: TODO suggestion: Cancel <number of articles> limit
1998-04-02 2:43 ` Hallvard B Furuseth
@ 1998-04-24 19:30 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 1998-04-24 19:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> writes:
> So how *do* you check out a single two-weeks-old dormant article in a
> high-volume group? Catchup, mark one article as unread, fetch that
> unread article, and `/D'?
Ok, I see your point. I don't want to change the semantics of
`C-u 1 0 RET', though, so it would have to be a new command or
something... Hm.
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larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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