Re: Why no multiple *Article* buffers?

[craffert@ml.com (Colin Rafferty)]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes:
> Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.com> writes:

>> So, what possible use is it to have a single *Article* buffer to handle
>> multiple *Summary* buffers? 

> Having multiple article buffers can be somewhat confusing.  At least I
> thought so after I switched to multiple article buffers, which can be
> done by setting `gnus-single-article-buffer' to nil.

Agree with Scott, respectfully disagree with Lars.  As one of the major
testers of multiple article buffers, I can tell you that they make life
wonderful.  That is, if you are using multiple frames.  But if you are
not using multiple frames, you are not using Gnus to its full potential.

I have one virtual window in vtwm in which I do all mail/news reading.
The left half of the screen has a stack of emacs frames, each of which
holds a single summary/article pair of buffers for one group.

M-C-F9 lowers the current frame so that I can cycle through groups.
With all this, each Gnu frame has a matching *Summary* and *Article*,
and when I cycle frames, I see the actual articles.  A single *Article*
buffer would hopelessly confuse everything.

What I should really do is have `gnus-select-group-hook' change the
frame out from under Gnus, and have `gnus-summary-exit-hook' kill the
frame.  This would make life very cool (or very confusing).

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Colin Rafferty

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