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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: Gnus 5.8.8 threading bug and threading wishlist
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 19:24:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3vfxzphyh.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y93vboax.fsf@smtp.xs4all.nl>

Jaap-Henk Hoepman <jhh@cs.kun.nl> writes:

> When setting
>
>            (setq gnus-thread-ignore-subject nil)
>
> to break threads at a change of subject, the number of articles in a
> thread that is being split shows up wrong in the summary buffer (in
> fact it shows the total number of articles in the original, unsplit
> thread).

Hm; yes.  The ignore-subject thing is done when displaying while the
count is done on the real thread.  (Which doesn't care about
subjects.)

So that's a bug.  :-)

> As far as the wishlist is concerned: ignoring subject is intelligent
> enough to recognise replies (i.e. subject changes from "Subject" to
> "Re: Subject" are ignored when splitting threads) but not forwards
> (i.e. subject changes from "Subject" to "Fw: Subject" or "Fwd:
> Subject"_will_ split the thread). In the latter case i would prefer
> to keep these articles in a single thread.

`gnus-simplify-subject-functions' controls all that jazz.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen



      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-03-31 17:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-04  8:52 Jaap-Henk Hoepman
2003-03-21 10:02 ` Threading bugs in gnus 5.8.8 and ognus 0.16 Jaap-Henk Hoepman
2003-03-31 17:24 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]

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