From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/14539 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Summary scoring commands/a puzzle Date: 12 Mar 1998 09:52:59 -0800 Organization: none Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035153712 16704 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:41:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:41:52 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA13012 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 10:03:41 -0800 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA12928 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 11:58:31 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAN05244; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 12:32:28 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 12 Mar 1998 11:55:35 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA20799 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 11:55:26 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 29533 invoked by uid 504); 12 Mar 1998 17:55:03 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 29530 invoked from network); 12 Mar 1998 17:55:03 -0000 Original-Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 12 Mar 1998 17:55:02 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 6198 invoked by uid 509); 12 Mar 1998 17:54:53 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: emacs.ding Original-Lines: 56 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pm1-12.sba1.avtel.net Original-X-Trace: sunsite.auc.dk 889725292 5986 (None) 207.71.218.62 Original-X-Complaints-To: news@sunsite.auc.dk X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.6.1/Emacs 20.2 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14539 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14539 Nils Goesche writes: > Hi! > > Indeed, the documentation for scoring in summary buffer could be clearer. I > found it disencouraging because I didn't even see why I would want to score > an article anyway. Of course, there are subjects and authors that interest > me more than others, but exactly what would scoring an article help? I have > read some article and likely won't read it again :) I would be glad if > someone would be so kind and explain to me, why I would want to score > articles after all, so I can start again reading the documentation :) People have different uses for Usenet. I am new to all this so want to soak up as much info as possible. Certain authors in the Emacs groups have posted lots of really useful info. I go back to those postings repeatedly. Here is one example of how to use scoring: I have set several authors to be scored up, now when the nntp posting arrive those authors are scored at 1000. I read thru the new postings. Whatever looks interesting. When done I run the limited view command like so: 'C-u 1000 / v' This will show a view of only those messages scored at 1000. Now I will 'tick' them all so they stay on my HDD. When I get lost using emacs or gnus I can call up all those ticked articles and search them for answers. Heres another example: Lets say I want to know more about a dired function than I am finding in the manual -- in this case dired-do-search and replace Go to comp.emacs Do 'C-u ' this calls up all articles from server plus what ever I have ticked maybe 6-7 hundred in all. Using the scoring commands -- (score on body) I can send gnus through all 6-7 hundred messages looking for a regular expression of my choosing. Something like dired-do-.*search.*replace.*$ <== this tells gnus to find every instance in all articles where someone has mentioned "dired-do" "search" "replace" but only if they are all on the same line, and give it a score I determined. NOTE: There are probably more elegant expressions but as mentioned I am just learning to use them. Once this is done, I can limit the view to that score and study the postings that contain the information I want. A combination of scoring and limiting the view is a technique with many uses. -- Harry Putnam reader@newsguy.com