From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/54961 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Greiner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Generate buffer containing only undownloaded Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 08:00:03 -0600 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1069855262 3678 80.91.224.253 (26 Nov 2003 14:01:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:01:02 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M3501@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Nov 26 15:00:57 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AP0Dw-0002lk-00 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:00:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AP0DL-00022D-00; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 08:00:19 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AP0DC-000225-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 08:00:10 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (quimby.gnus.org [80.91.224.244]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 443383A0043 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 08:00:10 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AP0DB-0000Ms-00 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:00:09 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 36 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup-216-12-206-252.ev1.net Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1069855209 1038 216.12.206.252 (26 Nov 2003 14:00:09 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:00:09 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Xo41NX9dnhQEp+Kp6yTC9XBKJlo= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54961 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54961 Harry Putnam writes: > Kevin Greiner 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