From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/33067 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 13:27:47 -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=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035169243 23182 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:00:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:00:43 +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 39563D049A for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 14:28:47 -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 NAB22034; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 13:28:28 -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 13:27:49 -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 NAA20828 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 13:27:35 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from ns0.utdallas.edu (ns0.utdallas.edu [129.110.10.1]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04B5FD049A for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 14:28:00 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from spartacus.utdallas.edu (spartacus.utdallas.edu [129.110.3.11]) by ns0.utdallas.edu (Postfix) with SMTP id 93F4A1A0444 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 13:27:46 -0600 (CST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 30 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:33067 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:33067 >>>>> On Fri, 7 Jul 2000 17:12:45 +0200, >>>>> Kai Großjohann (kg) writes: kg> Right now, reading a message marks it as read (or expirable, if kg> auto-expire is turned on, but I won't be talking about auto-expire for kg> the moment). kg> Of course, that's just the way that Gnus operates: it pretends your kg> mail is like news, and so reading a message should make it go away, kg> sort of. kg> But new Gnus users might not want this behavior. For them, it would kg> be useful to tell Gnus to, say, tick a message when it is read, rather kg> than marking it as read. Must admit, when first using gnus/nnimap for mail reading, this did take some getting used to. kg> I suggest the following: introduce a variable kg> `gnus-select-article-mark' (or somesuch). This variable defaults to kg> gnus-read-mark. And the functions gnus-summary-mark-unread-as-read kg> and gnus-summary-mark-read-and-unread-as-read use that variable rather kg> than the hard-coded gnus-read-mark. Would that then tick all read messages? If so, wouldn't that negate the usefulness of having such a flag? Or perhaps you're meaning yet another read-but-dont-submerge flag? -- Amos