From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/37673 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Cyprian Laskowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: treatment of prefix arg in `gnus-group-select-group' Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 07:35:28 -0700 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035173049 15089 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:04:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:04:09 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 14125 invoked from network); 10 Aug 2001 15:29:08 -0000 Original-Received: from cr560685-a.rchmd1.bc.wave.home.com (HELO swagbelly.net) (cyp@24.113.146.75) by gnus.org with SMTP; 10 Aug 2001 15:29:08 -0000 Original-Received: (from cyp@localhost) by swagbelly.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA14039; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 07:35:29 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: swagbelly.net: cyp set sender to cyp@swagbelly.net using -f Original-To: Gnus Mailing List User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.104 Original-Lines: 31 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:37673 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:37673 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