Re: Showing dormants when entering mail group?

[<jari.aalto@poboxes.com>]

| 98-03-14 SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org> list.ding
| jari aalto <jari.aalto@poboxes.com> writes:
| 
| >     elegant way to display them by default in mail groups?
| 
| O.K.  I did some digging and unfortunately the behavior of suppressing 
| childless dormants appears to be hardcoded.  Rats.

Yow...so it seems. double rats.

| Would it help if I got down on my knees and begged like a dog for a
| customizable option to suppress this?  Pretty please Lars?
|
|             ;; If this article is dormant and has absolutely no visible
|             ;; children, then this article isn't visible.
|             (and (memq number gnus-newsgroup-dormant)
|                  (zerop children))

Wish for f'coming variable:

- If variable is string: match regexp against group name --> is match,
  enable showing dormants in the group. (this is usefull when separating
  work mail, private mail, Mailing lists and nntp)
- If variable is symbol and not nil: call user function to find out if
  dormats are shown. non-nil return value shows dormants.

That should give enought rope...
jari