Re: marking articles when reading them

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

On 31 Oct 2000, amos+lists.ding@utdallas.edu wrote:
> 
> kg> I suggest the following: introduce a variable
> kg> `gnus-select-article-mark' (or somesuch).  This variable
> kg> defaults to gnus-read-mark.  And the functions
> kg> gnus-summary-mark-unread-as-read and
> kg> gnus-summary-mark-read-and-unread-as-read use that variable
> kg> rather than the hard-coded gnus-read-mark.
> 
> Would that then tick all read messages?  If so, wouldn't that negate
> the usefulness of having such a flag?  Or perhaps you're meaning yet
> another read-but-dont-submerge flag?

It would tick all messages that a user selects for reading.

The consequence is that there are the following marks:

space -- the user hasn't seen this message yet, it's new, fresh
`!' -- the user has read the message
`E' -- the user has marked the message for deletion
`r' -- user has read the message, wants to keep it but not show

I think that this is mostly what a run-of-the-mill mail reader does.
For example, I think VM marks fresh messages with `N', read messages
with space, and I'm not sure about the deletion mark.  A
run-of-the-mill mail reader might not have an equivalent of the Gnus
`r' mark, though.

This is crippling Gnus, I know.  But if it makes people happy...

kai
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