Re: Marking new unread articles differently?

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Matt Simmons <simmonmt@acm.org> writes:
> 
> > I can't be the only one who has obscene numbers of unread messages
> > rotting away in my mailbox.  This causes me to lose new messages,
> > especially when the appear as part of a thread headed by previously
> > unread messages.
> 
> Well -- don't you want to read messages earlier in the thread before
> messages later in the thread?
> 
> > Is there any way to have the messages that have appeared since the
> > last time the spool was inc'd displayed in a different face in the
> > Summary Buffer?  This would make it easier to differentiate between
> > old and new unread messages.
> 
> I think it sounds like you really want an unthreaded mail group
> summary display.

Something along this same vein:

I like to have the summary displayed with hidden threads, and have set
up the `gnus-summary-line-format' to show the number of messages in a
thread. To me, this makes it easier to get a quick overview of the
summary. Scroll down to something interesting and start using 'n'
which will open the threads and find the new articles.

If you have the default view of only new articles, but have a number
of 'ticked' articles also in the display then a new message can hide
behind a ticked message.

I'd like to be able to notice any new articles with out opening the
threads with 'T S' and with out using 'n' till I want it.

So how would it work to have any thread containing a new message, show
the 'unread face' even if some messages in the thread are already read
but ticked then when the thread is opened the ticked ones show
'ticked face'  and the unread show unread normally.


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Harry Putnam  reader@newsguy.com