Re: treatment of prefix arg in `gnus-group-select-group'

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

Cyprian Laskowski <cyp@swagbelly.net> writes:

> 1.  If the group has lots of unread articles, past the threshold where
>     it normally asks me how many articles to fetch, it should not ask
>     me if I provide a prefix argument.  I.e., if I do `10 RET', I
>     should not be asked how many articles to fetch.

This is what happens for me.  I wonder why that does not happen for
you.

> 2.  The prefix argument of 0 should be treated specially: if I do `0
>     RET', Gnus should not bother with any sort of scoring (I'm not
>     sure if it does now) or whatnot, and should immediately just put
>     me in the summary buffer.

Does M-RET do what you want?

>     I sometimes do `0 RET' if I'm just looking for some cached article,
>     and in these cases I don't want to bother fetching new articles.
>     I just want to type `/ *' and see cached articles (which don't
>     require interacting with the server).  In fact, even if the server
>     is totally down, a `0 RET' should work like this, I think.

Hm.  Hmmm...  What about `1 RET'?

kai
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