From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/15731 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [Q] Enter a group, show an article -- how to? Date: 25 Jul 1998 00:08:53 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87ogufw6b5.fsf@slowfox.do.uunet.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035154717 23713 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:58:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:58:37 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org (gwyn.tux.org [207.96.122.8]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA25099 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 15:16:21 -0700 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA15634 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 18:12:28 -0400 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAS20297; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 16:40:11 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 24 Jul 1998 17:06:45 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA22120 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 17:06:34 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sparky.gnus.org (ppp111.uio.no [129.240.240.116]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA04388 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 18:06:24 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by sparky.gnus.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA27841; Sat, 25 Jul 1998 00:10:02 +0200 Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Reading: Elizabeth Moon's _Phases_ Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Kai Grossjohann's message of "24 Jul 1998 18:40:46 +0200" X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.25/Emacs 20.2 X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ writes: > This has a few problems, though. For one thing, it is slow for large > groups, as it has got to fetch all article headers (not much of a > problem) and generate the complete summary buffer (this is the > time-killer, right here!) before throwing most of it away. Is there a > way that I can enter the group without generating a huge summary > buffer first? I've now added a SELECT-ARTICLES parameter to the ephemeral function that will let you generate a summary buffer with only the requested articles in it. > The second problem with the above code is that it will ask the user > how many articles to receive, if the group is large. An obvious > workaround is to temporarily bind gnus-large-newsgroup. But is this a > good solution, too? I think so; yes. > Oh, and another question: is the variable gnus-current-select-method > the right way of finding out the backend that the current summary > buffer belongs to? Yes. > And yet another question: is the variable gnus-article-current the > right way of finding the current article number? Does it point to the > article that is being shown in the *Article* buffer or to the article > under point? The former. > If the former, how to I find out the latter? (gnus-summary-article-number) will return the article under point. > How could I have found each or any of the above without asking? I > tried the time-tried UTSL method but I was lacking understanding of > what was going on... Uhm... I think asking was the most cost-effective way of finding out. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen