From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/33068 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Amos Gouaux Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: marking articles when reading them Date: 31 Oct 2000 13:51:19 -0600 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035169244 23198 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:00:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:00:44 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 442E9D049C for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 14:52:02 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAB22335; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 13:51:46 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 31 Oct 2000 13:51:09 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA21171 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 13:50:58 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from ns0.utdallas.edu (ns0.utdallas.edu [129.110.10.1]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01DE0D049C for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 14:51:23 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from spartacus.utdallas.edu (spartacus.utdallas.edu [129.110.3.11]) by ns0.utdallas.edu (Postfix) with SMTP id 9397F1A04CC for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 13:51:18 -0600 (CST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 40 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Bryce Canyon) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:33068 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:33068 >>>>> On 07 Jul 2000 11:37:02 -0400, >>>>> David S Goldberg (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