Re: Small complaint about M-g

[Jussi Yli-Urpo <jmy@h32.erkki.ton.tut.fi>]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> When inside a group and wanting to rescan from source with `M-g', `ESC
> g' `Z G' is it really necessary to loose all trace of what you were
> doing, have the group completely reshuffled and any open but read
> messages buried.

This was one of the reasons I eventually turned off
marking selected articles automatically as read. Now in all
my mail groups I either manually mark them read one by one
or catchup whole group when I'm sure that I haven't missed
anything important. 

This way I can safely rescan group (or do something else in
some other buffer) as often I wan't and I can still see
all those mails that I haven't read yet (of course ticking
those would also work but it just too easy to forget to do).  

> Can't we bring in new messages without all that?

I have see this same question asked before. Conclusion must
have been that it's not easy to implement.

> Lots of times I just want to bring in a message in a certain thread and
> hold my place there.

Clearing mark of the current message before rescan would also
help to keep at least your current message there. Could you
do same thing for whole thread?

-- 
Jussi.