Re: gnus-topic open-topic indicator

[larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen)]

Sudish Joseph <joseph@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:

> Dave Disser writes:
> > More on this...  Maybe a gnus-topic-line-format is the righter thing
> > to do?
> 
> Yes, please!  I can see the eventual addition of unread/marked article
> totals (for subsumed groups) to the closed topic line in the group
> buffer; implementing it this way allows for future functionality.

Yup; I agree.  I've added it to the ever-expanding todo list.  Hm.  I
think I should try to implement some more stuff from that list
soonish, but I'm kinda busy at the moment...

> Another cool topics feature would be to allow interactive movement of
> groups between topics.  I.e., we might overload Cut (C-k, C-w) and
> Paste (C-y) so that the group gets inserted into the topic it was
> yanked under.  This isn't very hard, we just have to add an entry to
> the group parameter list at yank time.

Yes, that sounds like a good idea as well.

gnus-topic is an obviously Good Idea, but I'm wondering whether we
should try do generalize this stuff more.  If somebody comes up with a
different scheme for partitioning the group buffer, it might be better
if we had something more general in store...

Or maybe not.  Perhaps just a simple "flat" group buffer and a
"folded" one is all that we need.

> Not a big thing, but it would complicate (and/or seriously slow down)
> the update of read/ticked article counts (if they get added).  Hmm,
> maybe add a parameter to indicate that the group should belong to just
> the one topic?  Or just use the existence of a topic parameter to
> determine this (i.e., ignore gnus-group-topics for such groups)?
> 
> Actually, the interaction between gnus-group-topics and group
> parameter entries should probably be settled before doing the above.

Yes...  Isn't it the case that if a group has a topic group parameter
and `gnus-topic-unique', then this won't really be a problem?  The
group parameter is checked before checking `gnus-group-topics'?

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