From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/37679 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: Re: treatment of prefix arg in `gnus-group-select-group' Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 18:58:01 +0200 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 1035173054 15137 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:04:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:04:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Gnus Mailing List Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 14819 invoked from network); 10 Aug 2001 16:59:02 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by gnus.org with SMTP; 10 Aug 2001 16:59:02 -0000 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id SAA22023; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 18:58:02 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id SAA14728; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 18:58:02 +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 SAA03081; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 18:58:02 +0200 Original-To: Cyprian Laskowski In-Reply-To: (Cyprian Laskowski's message of "Fri, 10 Aug 2001 07:35:28 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.105 Original-Lines: 28 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:37679 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:37679 Cyprian Laskowski 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 -- ~/.signature: No such file or directory