* prefix arg of RET not same as entering number of articles?
@ 1999-07-14 21:37 Kai Großjohann
1999-08-27 18:42 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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From: Kai Großjohann @ 1999-07-14 21:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
My Gnus group contains 600 ticked old articles plus a few new ones.
I've set gnus-large-newsgroup to 500 and gnus-fetch-old-headers also
to 500. gnus-build-sparse-threads is nil, the default value I think.
I've discovered that hitting RET on the group then answering 99 to the
prompt is not the same thing as typing 9 9 RET! I had previously
expected these two to do the same thing and was about to set
gnus-large-newsgroup to a nearly infinite value.
Suppose there is one unread message. I hit RET, then answer 99 to the
prompt. I see 98 of the ticked message, plus the unread one. If,
however, I hit 9 9 RET, I see the 99 most recent messages, whether
they are ticked or marked as read or expirable.
Do I have to set gnus-large-newsgroup to 0 or is there some other way
to get both behaviors even for small groups?
kai
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* Re: prefix arg of RET not same as entering number of articles?
1999-07-14 21:37 prefix arg of RET not same as entering number of articles? Kai Großjohann
@ 1999-08-27 18:42 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 1999-08-27 18:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> I've discovered that hitting RET on the group then answering 99 to the
> prompt is not the same thing as typing 9 9 RET!
No, they're quite different.
> Suppose there is one unread message. I hit RET, then answer 99 to the
> prompt. I see 98 of the ticked message, plus the unread one. If,
> however, I hit 9 9 RET, I see the 99 most recent messages, whether
> they are ticked or marked as read or expirable.
Yup.
> Do I have to set gnus-large-newsgroup to 0 or is there some other way
> to get both behaviors even for small groups?
I thing you have to set that variable to 0 to get the behavior.
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