From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/54960 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Generate buffer containing only undownloaded Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 06:39:05 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1069850371 26251 80.91.224.253 (26 Nov 2003 12:39:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 12:39:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M3500@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Nov 26 13:39:29 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AOyx7-0006dc-00 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 13:39:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AOyww-0001uB-00; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 06:39:18 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AOywo-0001u5-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 06:39:10 -0600 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E02A53A005F for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 06:39:09 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AOywm-0007wj-00 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 13:39:08 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AOywl-0007wU-00 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 13:39:07 +0100 Original-Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AOywl-0006oi-00 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 13:39:07 +0100 Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ye0mCDAZ5jQrBrm2P7Q8UVIvtSg= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54960 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54960 Kevin Greiner writes: [...] >> I find that I often have a few undownloaded messages mixed in with >> many downloaded ones. Due to my reading habits no doubt. Even >> though the category predicate is `true'. I rarely go unplugged so >> sometimes read messages before they are downloaded which I think is >> what causes the random undownloaded messages. > > I may have a solution for this one. Add > gnus-agent-fetch-selected-article to the gnus-select-article-hook. > This will result in undownloaded messages being downloaded to the > agent as you read them. Oh, this looks promising... yes. ... Thanks >> Anyway, how can I sort a few dozen undownloaded into a display from a >> summary of buffer of several thousand? > > How about an alternative solution? > > Use 'M-^ 1 0 0 0 0 J #' to mark all articles for fetching then use > 'J S' to fetch them. The nice part is that the agent will only fetch > those articles that have not already been fetched. That is what I've been doing, but its a bit labor intensive. Takes a fair bit of time. But worse is the fact that all readedness marks leave town with that solution. ... (on whatever gets downloaded) Not a very good solution but yes, it does work.