Re: marking articles when reading them

[Amos Gouaux <amos+lists.ding@utdallas.edu>]

>>>>> On 07 Jul 2000 11:37:02 -0400,
>>>>> David S Goldberg <dsg@mitre.org> (dsg) writes:

dsg> Why is the `(display . all)' group parameter insufficient for this?

I actually tend to do this for many of my mail folders.
Unfortunately, it can be a drag if the folder has thousands of
messages, as some of mine easily do.  Even my inbox can grow that
large pretty quickly.

Okay, so I set `gnus-large-newsgroup'.  Now I get prompted for how
many messages I want each time I enter a folder, because chances are
that folder has more than that many messages.

What I'd like to see, to go along with `(display . all)', is
something like `gnus-no-more-than-x-messages'.  This might be set to
a small value, like a couple of hundred or so, for faster folder
access.  Then if I wanted more of the messages, I could just do `C-u
M-g', and it would prompt me for how many messages to include.

dsg> Frankly, in the few groups I use it, I think it's preferable to
dsg> ticking everything because I want to use the tick for emphasis.

Precisely.  

Actually, I still use PINE or something to dig around in folders if
I want to find something particular.  One difficulty I have with
gnus/nnimap is that if I have *all* my folders listed in my
.newsrc.eld, starting up gnus hits the mail server rather hard as it
goes and digs through that long folder list of mine.  So I try to
keep gnus only knowledgeable about the folders that I frequently
access, which means I use another IMAP client to quickly query
something.

I suspect that I just haven't fully transitioned my thinking to how
gnus does things.  At least I find myself toggling back and forth
less frequently.

-- 
Amos