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From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)
Subject: Re: overview -> .db files?
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 12:44:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3el9yiod8.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84fzulnq3s.fsf@crybaby.uni-duisburg.de> (kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de's message of "Fri, 01 Nov 2002 18:42:47 +0100")

kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) wrote:
> Wes Hardaker <wes@hardakers.net> writes:
>> Actually, just making the overview files be .el files would
>> probably be a big win.

nnmaildir does essentially that, with one file per article.
$ cat mail/ding/.nnmaildir/nov/1036172673.12726.multivac.cwru.edu ; echo
[1 1118 "<84fzulnq3s.fsf@crybaby.uni-duisburg.de>" ["Re: overview -> .db files?kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=)      Fri, 01 Nov 2002 18:42:47 +0100" "<sdu1j2pp60.fsf@wanderer.hardakers.net> <844rb2o4ef.fsf@crybaby.uni-duisburg.de> <sdela6iamq.fsf@wanderer.hardakers.net>      4841   68" "" (15810 48513) nil]]

> I don't know, however, if Gnus sometimes looks at parts of the
> overview file only.

Sure; nnchoke-retrieve-headers is called with just the range of
articles that Gnus wants to show in the *Summary* buffer.

>> I've often thought that on exiting a summary buffer, you have all the
>> display information since you've already created it, so couldn't we
>> save the current buffer to a file, reload it and reapply all the
>> regions and insert new contents?  That *may* be faster than rebuilding
>> it from scratch every time.

I think lots of things could invalidate the stored version, though.
Changes in scoring, gnus-summary-line-format, article marks...


paul



  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-06 17:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-31 16:07 Wes Hardaker
2002-10-31 18:21 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-10-31 21:03   ` Wes Hardaker
2002-11-01 17:42     ` Kai Großjohann
2002-11-06 17:44       ` Paul Jarc [this message]
2002-11-07  7:37         ` Kai Großjohann

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