Re: Moving articles destroys all marks

["François Pinard" <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) écrit:
> François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> > My need is simple: to be sure I do not loose articles while moving
> > them elsewhere.  In my case, the automatic reading that comes with
> > opening an article is plain unwelcome when the article has to be
> > sorted elsewhere.  My feeling is that this automatic reading should be
> > undone, automatically as much as possible -- so I just cannot forget
> > to do it.  Whatever scheme that let me sort articles as I want, and
> > is not error-prone, is acceptable to me.

> I think it would be best (and sufficient) to redefine the keys to a
> function which removes all marks first [...] then calls the normal
> move function.

This is what I did, as you might suspect, for the most common cases.

> Hm.  We want the unmarking to happen for the next N articles, or the
> process-marked articles.  And we don't want the process-mark to be
> removed.  Hm.  How is this done?

This is part of my problem!  There are many cases I do not handle properly.
I just did the most obvious or irritating cases, with some sweat and pain.
Things are more nicely done, when by Lars.  He knows Gnus pretty well :-).

But I also think I'm no extraordinary user, and that my needs could be
the needs of other users just as well, and worth sharing for this reason.
Of course, there is no single solution that makes everyone happy at once
in matters like Gnus, but the current tunability of Gnus lets me believe
that many habits can co-exist.  Maybe Lars listens? :-)

-- 
François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard