Showing dormants when entering mail group?

Showing dormants when entering mail group?

[jari.aalto]

    Thanks for the idea by SLB and others, I started marking "todo"
    articles with dormant tick in my mail groups. What is the
    elegant way to display them by default in mail groups?

    I tried putting (this is an exerpt)

    (if (not (string-match "nntp" group)) ;Show dormants
        (gnus-summary-limit-include-dormant))

    Into gnus-summary-prepare-hook function, but it rolled suicide
    (infinite recursive call). Yow, I thought 
    gnus-summary-prepare-hook runs only after summary was created and
    that any additional formatting commands would be placed in that hook.

    What the next step?
    jari

Re: Showing dormants when entering mail group?

[SL Baur]

jari aalto <jari.aalto@poboxes.com> writes:

>     Thanks for the idea by SLB and others, I started marking "todo"
>     articles with dormant tick in my mail groups. What is the
>     elegant way to display them by default in mail groups?

O.K.  I did some digging and unfortunately the behavior of suppressing 
childless dormants appears to be hardcoded.  Rats.

Would it help if I got down on my knees and begged like a dog for a
customizable option to suppress this?  Pretty please Lars?

gnus-sum.el:
(defun gnus-summary-limit-children (thread)
  "Return 1 if this subthread is visible and 0 if it is not."
  ;; First we get the number of visible children to this thread.  This
  ;; is done by recursing down the thread using this function, so this
  ;; will really go down to a leaf article first, before slowly
  ;; working its way up towards the root.
  (when thread
    (let ((children
           (if (cdr thread)
               (apply '+ (mapcar 'gnus-summary-limit-children
                                 (cdr thread)))
             0))
          (number (mail-header-number (car thread)))
          score)
      (if (and
           (not (memq number gnus-newsgroup-marked))
           (or
            ;; If this article is dormant and has absolutely no visible
            ;; children, then this article isn't visible.
            (and (memq number gnus-newsgroup-dormant)
                 (zerop children))
 ...

Re: Showing dormants when entering mail group?

[jari.aalto]

| 98-03-14 SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org> list.ding
| jari aalto <jari.aalto@poboxes.com> writes:
| 
| >     elegant way to display them by default in mail groups?
| 
| O.K.  I did some digging and unfortunately the behavior of suppressing 
| childless dormants appears to be hardcoded.  Rats.

Yow...so it seems. double rats.

| Would it help if I got down on my knees and begged like a dog for a
| customizable option to suppress this?  Pretty please Lars?
|
|             ;; If this article is dormant and has absolutely no visible
|             ;; children, then this article isn't visible.
|             (and (memq number gnus-newsgroup-dormant)
|                  (zerop children))

Wish for f'coming variable:

- If variable is string: match regexp against group name --> is match,
  enable showing dormants in the group. (this is usefull when separating
  work mail, private mail, Mailing lists and nntp)
- If variable is symbol and not nil: call user function to find out if
  dormats are shown. non-nil return value shows dormants.

That should give enought rope...
jari

Re: Showing dormants when entering mail group?

[Per Abrahamsen]

SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:

> O.K.  I did some digging and unfortunately the behavior of suppressing 
> childless dormants appears to be hardcoded.  Rats.

It happens to be the whole idea behind the dormant mark.  

I think it is better to start working on support for real labels, or
to start using subgroups as labels, instead of changing a feature like
dormant articles into something for which it wasn't designed.

Re: Showing dormants when entering mail group?

[Hallvard B Furuseth]

Jari Aalto writes:

>     Thanks for the idea by SLB and others, I started marking "todo"
>     articles with dormant tick in my mail groups.

I use `!*'.  That is, `ticked and cached'.  It works fine, though I
admit it takes a bit more disk space than necessary:-)

-- 
Hallvard

Re: Showing dormants when entering mail group?

[jari.aalto]

| 98-03-15 Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> list.ding
| SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:
| 
| > O.K.  I did some digging and unfortunately the behavior of suppressing 
| > childless dormants appears to be hardcoded.  Rats.
| 
| It happens to be the whole idea behind the dormant mark.  
| 
| I think it is better to start working on support for real labels, or
| to start using subgroups as labels, instead of changing a feature like
| dormant articles into something for which it wasn't designed.

I still think it would be nice if there we gnus-show-dormants that
I could put to my private mail groups Group parameter list to
show dormants immediately..

At work I have lot of time schedules and things to do and I wish
there were also a way to set a "time" (in days?) limit during which
the message must be handled (or answered to).

How do people currently deal with messages that can be classified
as  "answer within 4 days or else...boom"

jari

Re: Showing dormants when entering mail group?

[Hallvard B Furuseth]

Jari Aalto writes:

> I still think it would be nice if there we gnus-show-dormants that
> I could put to my private mail groups Group parameter list to
> show dormants immediately..

If you want them to be shown immediatly, why mark them as dormant?

> How do people currently deal with messages that can be classified
> as  "answer within 4 days or else...boom"

I just answered how I do it in Gnus.  Other answers:
Xcalendar. Diary. Xalarm.  Save them to a TODO mail folder.

The idea is to use the right tool for the job instead of desperatly
trying to use a feature which is supposed to be used for almost the
inverse situation.

-- 
Hallvard

Re: Showing dormants when entering mail group?

[Hrvoje Niksic]

Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

> I think it is better to start working on support for real labels, or
> to start using subgroups as labels, instead of changing a feature
> like dormant articles into something for which it wasn't designed.

I agree.

-- 
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
--------------------------------+--------------------------------
By any chance, have you seen a summoned 9th order fire elemental
wandering around?  No?  Oh..  Tell me if you do.

Re: Showing dormants when entering mail group?

[Justin Sheehy]

<jari.aalto@poboxes.com> writes:

>     Thanks for the idea by SLB and others, I started marking "todo"
>     articles with dormant tick in my mail groups.

Why on earth would one do this?

The dormant mark makes no sense for `todo' items.

Standard ticks (`!') or simple unreadedness would make much more sense.

Another idea would be a separate group with (display . all)
that you move your todo items into.  There are other alternatives as
well, I am sure.

> What is the elegant way to display them by default in mail groups?

There isn't one.  I think that is silly to do so, because then they
are no different from ticks.

If you are in a mail group, and you want something to act like it has
the `!' mark, just use that mark.

-- 
Justin Sheehy

In a cloud bones of steel.
  

Re: Showing dormants when entering mail group?

[Wes Hardaker]

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>>>>> On 15 Mar 1998 00:03:38 +0200, <jari.aalto@poboxes.com> said:

jari> Thanks for the idea by SLB and others, I started marking "todo"
jari> articles with dormant tick in my mail groups. What is the
jari> elegant way to display them by default in mail groups?

Ok, fyi, this long thread has gotten enough interest that I'd post my
currently used hack to do similar displays of expitory threads.  The
difference is minimal, and enclosed in the hack is a new 'display'
group parameter support for a string to force listing/excluding
articles of a certain type.

The problem is, it doesn't work quite right.  It shows all the
articles, but ends up marking all of them but the last one as 'O' even 
though it should be reading the mark on them not changing it (even
Lars told me so).

The end result, if someone fixes it, it should be able to do what you
want (display dormant marks), with minor tweaks.  I haven't had the
time to look into it further myself.

-- 
"Ninjas aren't dangerous.  They're more afraid of you than you are of them."


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diff -c -r1.1.1.14 gnus-sum.el
*** gnus-sum.el 1998/03/09 17:49:04     1.1.1.14
--- gnus-sum.el 1998/03/09 17:50:02
***************
*** 3897,3914 ****
  
  (defun gnus-articles-to-read (group &optional read-all)
    ;; Find out what articles the user wants to read.
!   (let* ((articles
          ;; Select all articles if `read-all' is non-nil, or if there
          ;; are no unread articles.
!         (if (or read-all
!                 (and (zerop (length gnus-newsgroup-marked))
!                      (zerop (length gnus-newsgroup-unreads)))
!                 (eq (gnus-group-find-parameter group 'display)
!                     'all))
!             (gnus-uncompress-range (gnus-active group))
            (sort (append gnus-newsgroup-dormant gnus-newsgroup-marked
                          (copy-sequence gnus-newsgroup-unreads))
!                 '<)))
         (scored-list (gnus-killed-articles gnus-newsgroup-killed articles))
         (scored (length scored-list))
         (number (length articles))
--- 3905,3956 ----
  
  (defun gnus-articles-to-read (group &optional read-all)
    ;; Find out what articles the user wants to read.
!   (let* ((display (gnus-group-find-parameter group 'display))
!        tmparticles artmark
!        (articles
          ;; Select all articles if `read-all' is non-nil, or if there
          ;; are no unread articles.
!         (cond 
!          ((or read-all
!               (and (zerop (length gnus-newsgroup-marked))
!                    (zerop (length gnus-newsgroup-unreads)))
!               (eq display 'all))
!           (gnus-uncompress-range (gnus-active group)))
!          ((stringp display)
!           (message gnus-newsgroup-headers)
!           (setq tmparticles (gnus-uncompress-range (gnus-active group)))
!           (setq articles nil)
!           (if (string-equal (substring display 0 1) "-")
!               (progn
!                 (setq display (substring display 1))
!                 (while (not (null tmparticles))
!                   (setq artmark 
!                         (char-to-string 
!                          (gnus-article-mark (car tmparticles))))
!                   (if (or (not artmark)
!                           (not (string-match artmark display)))
!                       (setq articles 
!                             (append (list (car tmparticles)) articles)))
!                   (setq tmparticles (cdr tmparticles))))
!             (while (not (null tmparticles))
!               (setq artmark 
!                     (char-to-string (gnus-article-mark (car tmparticles))))
!               (if (and artmark (string-match artmark display))
!                   (setq articles
!                         (append (list (car tmparticles)) articles)))
!               (setq tmparticles (cdr tmparticles))))
!           articles)
!          ((eq display 'not-expired)
!           (setq articles (gnus-uncompress-range (gnus-active group)))
!           (setq tmparticles gnus-newsgroup-expirable)
!           (while (not (null tmparticles))
!             (setq articles (delq (car tmparticles) articles))
!             (setq tmparticles (cdr tmparticles)))
!           articles)
!          (t
            (sort (append gnus-newsgroup-dormant gnus-newsgroup-marked
                          (copy-sequence gnus-newsgroup-unreads))
!                 '<))))
         (scored-list (gnus-killed-articles gnus-newsgroup-killed articles))
         (scored (length scored-list))
         (number (length articles))

Re: Showing dormants when entering mail group?

[Yair Friedman]

Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

> Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:
> 
> > I think it is better to start working on support for real labels, or
> > to start using subgroups as labels, instead of changing a feature
> > like dormant articles into something for which it wasn't designed.
> 
> I agree.

It's in the TODO list for ages, I tried to start something, but it came
beyond my elisp knowledge. :(

I'd really like to have a user-defined marks but labels will be enough
for my purposes.
--
Yair.

Re: Showing dormants when entering mail group?

[SL Baur]

Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

> SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:
>> O.K.  I did some digging and unfortunately the behavior of suppressing 
>> childless dormants appears to be hardcoded.  Rats.

> It happens to be the whole idea behind the dormant mark.  

Why?  I tried using the dormant mark as a means of quickly seeing
which messages of mine had been responded to in a (Mail) group.  What
immediately turned me off about it is that once a message disappears
the entire group has to be rescanned to make these messages reappear.
I believe my objection to this would be resolved if there was a means
of having dormants older than a certain age (from a group parameter)
appear by default.

How are dormants supposed to be used?

> I think it is better to start working on support for real labels, or
> to start using subgroups as labels, instead of changing a feature like
> dormant articles into something for which it wasn't designed.

What are subgroups?

User-defined marks would be nice, or anything I can get access to in
`gnus-summary-highlight'.

Re: Showing dormants when entering mail group?

[Per Abrahamsen]

SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:

> Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:
> 
> > SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:
> >> O.K.  I did some digging and unfortunately the behavior of suppressing 
> >> childless dormants appears to be hardcoded.  Rats.
> 
> > It happens to be the whole idea behind the dormant mark.  
> 
> Why?  

Why what?

> I tried using the dormant mark as a means of quickly seeing
> which messages of mine had been responded to in a (Mail) group.

And what made you use dormant instead of ticks?

> What
> immediately turned me off about it is that once a message disappears
> the entire group has to be rescanned to make these messages reappear.

/ D

> I believe my objection to this would be resolved if there was a means
> of having dormants older than a certain age (from a group parameter)
> appear by default.

Just use the tick mark.

> How are dormants supposed to be used?

I have a KILL file like this:

(or (string-match "nn\\(draft:\\|ml:\\|tp\\+\\|dir:\\)" gnus-newsgroup-name)
    (gnus-kill "From" "BJÆF\\|Per Abrahamsen"
	       '(gnus-summary-mark-as-dormant 1)))

This way I don't have to see my own boring articles, except when
someone responds.
> 
> > I think it is better to start working on support for real labels, or
> > to start using subgroups as labels, instead of changing a feature like
> > dormant articles into something for which it wasn't designed.
> 
> What are subgroups?

nnml:work.misc
nnml:work.todo
nnml:work.done
nnml:work.reference
nnvirtual:my-mail

Re: Showing dormants when entering mail group?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

<jari.aalto@poboxes.com> writes:

> (if (not (string-match "nntp" group)) ;Show dormants
> (gnus-summary-limit-include-dormant))
> 
> Into gnus-summary-prepare-hook function, but it rolled suicide
> (infinite recursive call). Yow, I thought 
> gnus-summary-prepare-hook runs only after summary was created and
> that any additional formatting commands would be placed in that hook.

It does, and they should.  However,
`gnus-summary-limit-include-dormant' is not a command for doing
"additional formatting" -- it's a function that prepares the summary
buffer.  Which explains the infloop.

Bind `gnus-summary-prepare-hook' to nil before calling any functions
that call that hook from that hook.  If you knowwhaddImean.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen