Re: Question about article identification and backends.

[prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)]

Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org> wrote:
> Actually, I might just prefer to have gnus-summary-move-marking-as
> and gnus-summary-copy-marking-as.  With each you would invoke the
> function, it would expect a keypress to indicate the mark (?, u, U,
> d, etc.) and then it would process the article(s).  You could
> possibly also have a gnus-default-group-added-article-mark that
> would be initially set to " ".

That's similar to an idea I had a while ago: replacing
gnus-gcc-mark-as-read with gnuc-gcc-marks, which would be a list of
mark symbols that would be automatically added to Gcc'ed articles.

NB: any code that works with marks should always use the symbols, not
the characters, whenever possible.  The symbols represent the true
state of an article, and are nearly orthogonal.  The characters are a
lossy, non-orthogonal representation of the symbols, used for the sake
of conserving screen space.  But there's no reason to inflict lossage
on other parts of the code.


paul