Re: Generate buffer containing only undownloaded

[Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com>]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>>> I find that I often have a few undownloaded messages mixed in with
>>> many downloaded ones.  Due to my reading habits no doubt.  Even
>>> though the category predicate is `true'.  I rarely go unplugged so
>>> sometimes read messages before they are downloaded which I think is
>>> what causes the random undownloaded messages.
>>
>> I may have a solution for this one.  Add
>> gnus-agent-fetch-selected-article to the gnus-select-article-hook.
>> This will result in undownloaded messages being downloaded to the
>> agent as you read them.
>
> Oh, this looks promising... yes.  ... Thanks
>
>>> Anyway, how can I sort a few dozen undownloaded into a display from a
>>> summary of buffer of several thousand?
>>
>> How about an alternative solution?
>>
>> Use 'M-^ 1 0 0 0 0 J #' to mark all articles for fetching then use
>> 'J S' to fetch them.  The nice part is that the agent will only fetch
>> those articles that have not already been fetched.
>
> That is what I've been doing, but its a bit labor intensive.  Takes a
> fair bit of time.  But worse is the fact that all readedness marks
> leave town with that solution. ... (on whatever gets downloaded)
> Not a very good solution but yes, it does work.

Set gnus-agent-mark-unread-after-downloaded to nil.

Kevin