From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/53301 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Greiner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus-agent-regenerate-group: change prompt? Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 08:49:04 -0500 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <84adbzxrnc.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1057067542 25230 80.91.224.249 (1 Jul 2003 13:52:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 13:52:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M1845@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Jul 01 15:52:18 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19XLVB-0006LW-00 for ; Tue, 01 Jul 2003 15:48:57 +0200 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 19XLVU-00005e-00; Tue, 01 Jul 2003 08:49:16 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19XLVR-00005Y-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 01 Jul 2003 08:49:13 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 47977 invoked by alias); 1 Jul 2003 13:49:12 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 47972 invoked from network); 1 Jul 2003 13:49:12 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 1 Jul 2003 13:49:12 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19XLbs-0003ne-00 for ; Tue, 01 Jul 2003 15:55:52 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: h-66-134-21-51.hstqtx02.covad.net Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1057067752 14220 66.134.21.51 (1 Jul 2003 13:55:52 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 1 Jul 2003 13:55:52 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:YhWYYZTz2HisT01oeWACe/Gcfaw= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:53301 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:53301 kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes: > gnus-agent-regenerate-group ask me whether to `reread'. I totally > misunderstood what it means. Ouch. That's not good. > I thought it was referring to which articles it looks at to update > the NOV database. I thought answering t means to update all NOV > lines, answering some means to update some NOV lines, and I wasn't > sure what answering nil means. > > I think if it said `Mark as unread' then it would have been > clearer -- I don't want it to mark anything as unread. To be more > precise, the explanation for `nil' could be to say that it keeps the > status quo. Would this be better? It's a closer match to the function's documentation. Mark as unread (nil)? (nil=>change no marks, t=>unread all, some=>unread all downloaded) Kevin