Re: Question about ticked articles being unticked...

[Dan Schmidt <dfan@harmonixmusic.com>]

Justin Sheehy <dworkin@ccs.neu.edu> writes:

| Dan Schmidt <dfan@harmonixmusic.com> writes:
| 
| > I have noticed that sometimes if I have one nnfolder *Summary* buffer
| > open, and switch buffers back to *Group* without closing it, and then
| > enter another nnfolder group, a lot of the first group's articles get
| > unticked.
| 
| Why would you do this?

A standard scenario is that I'm reading through the messages in my
personal folder, and I reply to one of them.  While writing my reply, I
realize that I need some piece of information in one of my mailing-list
folders.  So I switch-buffer to *Group* and select the appropriate
mailing-list folder.  Then I curse as I realize what I have just done.

| You should exit a group by pressing 'q' in its Summary buffer, not by
| changing buffers.

Yes, that is true.  But I'll make the following points:

1. I thought that somewhere in the gnus manual, it says that you're
   allowed to have multiple *Summary* buffers open at once.  Of
   course, now I can't find that section, but in any case:

2. If opening multiple *Summary* buffers results in loss of data, the
   user should be forcibly prevented from doing it.

3. I could live with a one *Summary* buffer restriction, but multiple
   *Summary* buffers are useful in the scenario mentioned above.  In
   that scenario,

   a. I was never in the first *Summary* buffer at a time where I
      wanted it to go away; I would have had to explicitly return to
      it from my *reply* buffer and then hit 'q', which is a slight
      pain both to execute and to remember to do.

   b. Having to 'q' out of the first *Summary* buffer is also a pain
      in that I'm in the middle of traversing my messages in that
      folder, and I'd rather not have to quit out of that and re-enter
      just to reply to one of the messages.

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