position of point in *Summary* buffer after a few commands

position of point in *Summary* buffer after a few commands

[John H. Palmieri]

One comment and one unreproducible bug:

The comment is, if I'm in the Summary buffer with the mark set, and
if I hit C-w, the articles in the region are marked as read, but would
it also make sense to set the mark at the point?  If I want to mark a
bunch of articles as read, I might set the mark, scroll down a bit,
hit C-w, then repeat.  Theoretically, it might not make any difference
whether the mark is in its original position or gets reset after each
C-w, but it seems faster to mark a smaller number of files, at least
in a large Summary buffer.

The bug is, if I'm in the Summary buffer (of a mail group) and hit
C-u B DEL, some of the time the point ends up in a seemingly random
position between where it started and where it should end up (four
articles later).  This is unreproducible; maybe it happens more when
I'm deleting messages in a deep thread?

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Re: position of point in *Summary* buffer after a few commands

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

palmieri@math.washington.edu (John H. Palmieri) writes:

> The comment is, if I'm in the Summary buffer with the mark set, and
> if I hit C-w, the articles in the region are marked as read, but would
> it also make sense to set the mark at the point?

If we compare the situation to killing a region of text, `C-w' kills
the region between mark and point; it doesn't kill the character under
point.  So I think the current behavior makes sense.

> The bug is, if I'm in the Summary buffer (of a mail group) and hit
> C-u B DEL, some of the time the point ends up in a seemingly random
> position between where it started and where it should end up (four
> articles later).  This is unreproducible; maybe it happens more when
> I'm deleting messages in a deep thread?

I haven't seen this...

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