From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/38579 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Didier Verna Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] NNDiary, a diary backend for Gnus. Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 10:03:57 +0200 Message-ID: References: <3d6z5z8c.fsf@oce.orst.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035174421 23299 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:27:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:27:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Kai.Grossjohann@cs.uni-dortmund.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=), ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 16416 invoked from network); 4 Sep 2001 08:59:10 -0000 Original-Received: from hermes.epita.fr (163.5.255.10) by gnus.org with SMTP; 4 Sep 2001 08:59:10 -0000 Original-Received: from goa.lrde.epita.fr (mail@goa.lrde.epita.fr [10.223.13.2]) by hermes.epita.fr id f84AvRL10014 Tue, 4 Sep 2001 10:57:27 GMT Original-Received: from uzeb.lrde.epita.fr ([10.223.13.53] ident=mail) by goa.lrde.epita.fr with esmtp (Exim 3.31 #1 (Debian)) id 15eCBc-00017i-00; Tue, 04 Sep 2001 11:08:00 +0200 Original-Received: from didier by uzeb.lrde.epita.fr with local (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 15eCAB-0006Vv-00; Tue, 04 Sep 2001 11:06:31 +0200 Original-To: Jody Klymak X-Attribution: drv X-Url: http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier X-Web: http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier X-Home-Page: http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier In-Reply-To: (Jody Klymak's message of "10 Aug 2001 17:27:00 -0700") X-Face: |j}\)O|k##MrRz#VK$Jy=0r=3Qc,,a/Tr6*JQbE73dy17]2YcmW$9Z&H21e}#~#pgc>dn(is5Bv1l!{1re+Q9suKIOUmOqZs2>QMxHlR;;}kaGYA@HR3D C6 X-Face: 6o|eiKqaHN.ANh8HXDzntcWUOCg\]RsOd.ctvm~*y}Y^R&*a+Co,\s#=HWsw3x$b_n2kJ#g (7u?J^@^xP)f,jUF|0Z'J:|G/bMA5O12*b,7`-Q`=pKsCRIpso07.Y>YB2H{7`?u&yh;C_ZtLHfj wrote: > I'm guessing that what nndiary does is look through a group, message > by message, and decide if any of them need to be set to "UNREAD". Correct. > Does this require a separate backend? Yes. > Lets see: So far as I can tell: nndiary > > 1) Displays the summary in a different format. That's a gnus-diary job, not nndiary (this has nothing to do with backend functionality). > 2) Sorts by Schedule Ditto (although schedule computation in itself belongs to the backe= nd). > 3) Adds headers to new messages created in the group. Ditto. > 4) Marks messages meeting certain schedule criteria as unread when > groups are queried. *That*, indeed, is part of the backend's job. -- Didier Verna, didier@lrde.epita.fr, http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier EPITA / LRDE, 14-16 rue Voltaire Tel.+33 (1) 53 14 59 47 94276 Le Kremlin-Bic=EAtre, France Fax.+33 (1) 44 08 01 99 didier@xemac= s.org