From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/52758 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Question about article identification and backends. Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 12:57:26 -0400 Organization: What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid? Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <8765o9cpoj.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <87vfw9gszz.fsf@eris.void.at> <877k8paqlr.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <84d6ig1szu.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <871xywayng.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1053363474 32608 80.91.224.249 (19 May 2003 16:57:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 16:57:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M1302=ding+2Daccount=gmane.org@lists.math.uh.edu Mon May 19 18:57:51 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19HnvO-0008I3-00 for ; Mon, 19 May 2003 18:55:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19Hnx9-000437-06 for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 19 May 2003 11:57:35 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19Hnx4-000430-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 19 May 2003 11:57:30 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 51931 invoked by alias); 19 May 2003 16:57:29 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 51919 invoked from network); 19 May 2003 16:57:29 -0000 Original-Received: from multivac.student.cwru.edu (HELO multivac.cwru.edu) (@129.22.114.26) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 19 May 2003 16:57:29 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 2775 invoked by uid 500); 19 May 2003 16:57:50 -0000 Original-To: Rob Browning In-Reply-To: <871xywayng.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> (Rob Browning's message of "Sun, 18 May 2003 13:38:11 -0500") Mail-Copies-To: nobody Mail-Followup-To: Rob Browning , ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52758 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52758 Rob Browning 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