From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/25305 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Number of read messages in gnus-group-line-format? Date: 25 Sep 1999 08:22:09 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035162714 13265 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:11:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:11:54 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA09184 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 02:48:08 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAB19455; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 01:47:33 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 25 Sep 1999 01:47:41 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA13701 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 01:46:46 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from quimbies.gnus.org (sparky.gnus.org [193.69.4.146]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA09080 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 02:44:45 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by quimbies.gnus.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA30686; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 08:47:27 +0200 Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Coil's _Musick to Play in the Dark (Vol 1)_: "Red Birds Will Fly Out of the East and Destroy Paris in a Night" Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "27 Aug 1999 17:24:37 +0200" User-Agent: Gnus/5.070097 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.97) XEmacs/21.2 (Sumida) X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ It seems that %R doesn't cut it because that one counts expirable > messages, too. So I added an entry in gnus-group-line-format-alist > which provides for %x which takes the same number as %R but substracts > the expirable and dormant and ticked messages from it. > > But that was too simple-minded an approach: it doesn't take possible > holes into account. Getting the true number of messages in a group requires "almost entering" the group. Doing so from the group buffer will be s-l-o-w. > I'm not sure this is a good approach, though. And going through all > old groups and marking as dormant all messages marked as read is going > to be a chore :-( Yup. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen