Re: Red gnus feature request - user defined marks.

[abraham@dina.kvl.dk (Per Abrahamsen)]

>>>>> "YF" == Yair Friedman <yair@cs.huji.ac.il> writes:

YF> I usually tick articles (!) for various reasons, it would be
YF> comfortable to visually differentiate between the reasons, for gnus
YF> they are all ticked but in the summary the should look different.
YF> 
YF> Is it possible to get this effect in sgnus?

>>>>> "LMI" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

LMI> No.  What you'd want is being able to annotate a message, I guess.
LMI> Annotations could then visually be shown in various ways.  I've added
LMI> this to the Red Gnus todo list.

I think the best way to do that would be to use labels, preferable in
a way that is compatible with how RMAIL and VM use labels, at least
for mail groups.  This would also make it easier to switch from RMAIL
to Gnus, as the user wouldn't lose all his carefully entered labels.

I think you decided to drop labels in when writting (ding) Gnus since
labels could, to some degree, be simulated by having multiple groups
combined into a single virtual group.  However, using labels is more
light weight than moving articles to separate groups, and labels could
work really well together with limits.