From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/22642 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Groups which have new mails Date: 20 Apr 1999 11:25:17 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035160525 30404 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:35:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:35:25 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA27588 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 05:27:04 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id EAB20102; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 04:26:18 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 20 Apr 1999 04:26:50 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA23222 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 04:26:37 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.4.42]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA27582 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 05:26:25 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from ramses.cs.uni-dortmund.de (ramses.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.20.180]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with SMTP id LAA26874 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 11:25:18 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: (grossjoh@localhost) by ramses.cs.uni-dortmund.de id LAA17888; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 11:25:17 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Danny Siu's message of "19 Apr 1999 18:10:46 -0700" Original-Lines: 33 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070083 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.83) Emacs/20.3.8 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:22642 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:22642 Danny Siu writes: > I wonder how people use marks on mail groups for the purpose of > keeping articles and indicating an need-to-be-late article. I'm not a Gnus expert, but here's what I do: I do not use total-expire. Fresh articles are unmarked. After I read a message, I decide what I want to do with it: - If it's a todo item for me, I tick it. - If I want to keep it, it stays marked as read. - If I want to delete it, I mark it as expirable. This way, the Group buffer only shows groups with articles that I need to deal with. Also, after entering a group, I only see messages that I need to deal with (plus the ones from gnus-fetch-old-headers being t, which provide context), and I can quickly tell the new ones from the ones I've already seen before. As to moving, you have n/p which move to an unmarked article, and N/P which consider read articles, too. But moving could be improved. As to reading lots of old articles being slow, well, I usually provide a limit (as in `2 2 2 RET' from the Group buffer or `9 9 M-g' from the Summary buffer). Oh, yes, I have modified the group line format to show the number of ticked/dormat messages (%i) as well as the number of unticked unread messages (%y). kai -- Abort this operation? [Abort] [Cancel]