From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Gnus bugs and some annoyances ...
Date: 11 Jan 1998 13:17:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <udlhg7azxh6.fsf@steve-dallas.MIT.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Stefan Waldherr's message of 11 Jan 1998 12:49:15 -0500
Stefan Waldherr <swa@cs.cmu.edu> writes:
> Now the articles numbers start with >> 1. I would have expected,
> that they start with 1, since the group is empty.
> This is bug #2.
That's not a bug. Gnus is first and foremost a news reader, so it
keeps track of messages---even expired ones---by number. If you
*really* want the messages to be renumbered from 1, you need to delete
and recreate nnml:swa in between.
> folder, gnus asks me `How many articles...'? MH has a nice feature where you
> can pack folder (pack as in renumber all articles so that there is no gap in
> the sequence of numbers). Could such a thing be of use for gnus?
No...see above.
--
Aaron M. Ucko <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu) [Stark raving sane]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-01-11 18:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-01-11 17:47 Stefan Waldherr
1998-01-11 18:17 ` Aaron M. Ucko [this message]
1998-01-11 19:54 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
1998-01-12 0:26 ` Ken Raeburn
1998-01-12 2:36 ` Justin Sheehy
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