treatment of prefix arg in `gnus-group-select-group'

[Cyprian Laskowski <cyp@swagbelly.net>]

Hi,

I'm lovin' Oort Gnus; thanks everyone!

I think I have a feature request or improvement suggestion.  Or maybe
there's some configuration that I could be doing that I've missed.

Basically, I think the prefix argument should be treated more cleverly
by `gnus-group-select-group' (and its other group-entering
colleagues).  In 2 respects, IMHO:

1.  If the group has lots of unread articles, past the threshold where
    it normally asks me how many articles to fetch, it should not ask
    me if I provide a prefix argument.  I.e., if I do `10 RET', I
    should not be asked how many articles to fetch.

2.  The prefix argument of 0 should be treated specially: if I do `0
    RET', Gnus should not bother with any sort of scoring (I'm not
    sure if it does now) or whatnot, and should immediately just put
    me in the summary buffer.

    I sometimes do `0 RET' if I'm just looking for some cached article,
    and in these cases I don't want to bother fetching new articles.
    I just want to type `/ *' and see cached articles (which don't
    require interacting with the server).  In fact, even if the server
    is totally down, a `0 RET' should work like this, I think.


What do you think?

cyp