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From: Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com>
Subject: Re: Completely removing an article from drafts?
Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 08:03:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <r8745q3e.fsf@asfast.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vxkptmoif8b.fsf@mesquite.charcoal.com> (Karl Kleinpaste's message of "Mon, 12 May 2003 07:20:04 -0400")

Karl Kleinpaste <k@charcoal.com> writes:

> Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:
>> Yep.  That worked.  I was looking for functions with the name 'expunge'
>> in them.  IMHO '-delete-' is misleading as part of this function's name.
>
> Why?
>
> How is "remove an article" (your request) less represented by "delete"
> than by "expunge"?

First of all, I meant to type "expire" instead of "expunge" (I have been
in the IMAP world a lot lately).

As for why I don't like "delete" in the function name, most (all?) of
the other 'delete' functions simply put a mark on the article and don't
actually get rid of it.  The removal itself is handled later on via
expiry.  Since `gnus-summary-delete-article' does actual expiry, I think
that it would be more clear if "expire" appeared in the function name.

Of course, this proposed `gnus-summary-expire-article' function would
have to simply be an aliaas for `gnus-summary-delete-article', so as not
to break existing code.

-- 
 Lloyd Zusman
 ljz@asfast.com



  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-12 12:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-12  9:32 Lloyd Zusman
2003-05-12 10:27 ` Jochen Küpper
2003-05-12 10:59   ` Lloyd Zusman
2003-05-12 11:20     ` Karl Kleinpaste
2003-05-12 12:03       ` Lloyd Zusman [this message]
2003-05-12 12:23         ` Karl Kleinpaste
2003-05-12 12:47           ` Lloyd Zusman
2003-05-12 12:59             ` Karl Kleinpaste
2003-05-12 13:11               ` Lloyd Zusman
2003-05-12 13:37                 ` Karl Kleinpaste
2003-05-12 14:29                   ` Lloyd Zusman
2003-05-12 13:18             ` Lloyd Zusman
2003-05-14 19:55               ` Kai Großjohann
2003-10-18 13:48                 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-05-14 19:53             ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-12 12:57           ` Lloyd Zusman
2003-05-12 16:27             ` Lloyd Zusman
2003-05-12 11:57   ` Simon Josefsson
2003-05-12 12:12     ` Lloyd Zusman
2003-05-12 13:45     ` Jochen Küpper
2003-05-12 18:32       ` David S Goldberg

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