From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/31685 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: marking articles when reading them Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 17:12:45 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035168068 15496 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:41:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:41:08 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from fisher.math.uh.edu (fisher.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.35]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D614D051F for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 11:16:48 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by fisher.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAC17816; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 10:13:16 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 07 Jul 2000 10:12:24 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA01140 for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 10:12:14 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.4.42]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC827D051F for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 11:12:47 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.20.159]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id RAA03178 for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 17:12:46 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.20.160]) by marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de id RAA27082; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 17:12:46 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: (from grossjoh@localhost) by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) id RAA07797; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 17:12:45 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de: grossjoh set sender to Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.0.90 Original-Lines: 34 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31685 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31685 Right now, reading a message marks it as read (or expirable, if auto-expire is turned on, but I won't be talking about auto-expire for the moment). Of course, that's just the way that Gnus operates: it pretends your mail is like news, and so reading a message should make it go away, sort of. But new Gnus users might not want this behavior. For them, it would be useful to tell Gnus to, say, tick a message when it is read, rather than marking it as read. I suggest the following: introduce a variable `gnus-select-article-mark' (or somesuch). This variable defaults to gnus-read-mark. And the functions gnus-summary-mark-unread-as-read and gnus-summary-mark-read-and-unread-as-read use that variable rather than the hard-coded gnus-read-mark. Since this variable can be set in a group-local fashion, it would be easy for users to define `important' mail groups, where the default would be to keep the message when it is read. And in mail groups that contain mailing lists, the default behavior can be kept. I used to use a similar behavior for a year or so (in the olden days of (ding) Gnus), and a colleague still uses it. What do you all think? kai PS: Should the variable be a group parameter for easy customization with `G c'? -- I like BOTH kinds of music.