Re: Feature request: Show dormants when entering group

[posting-list@mailAndnews.com (Jari Aalto+mail.emacs)]

* 2001-01-05 Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> list.emacs-ding
* Message-Id: <m3ae95z5av.fsf@gnus-5.8.8-cvs.now.playing>
| Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
| 
| > jari.aalto@poboxes.com (Jari Aalto+mail.emacs) writes:
| > 
| > > I use dormants for "todo" entries and not really for what they
| > > are orgiinally menat for. This means, that I always like to see
| > > the buffer generated with dormant, but in current gnus that is not
| > > possible.
| > 
| > Uhm -- the only essential difference between dormant and ticked
| > articles is that dormant articles aren't shown (unless they have
| > follow-ups).  So what don't you just tick the articles instead?
| 
| Another thing... I haven't tested it thoroughly but I think if you
| press `/ D' in a group, it will still show dormant the next time you
| enter too.  That is, press  `/ D', close the group, come back later
| and reopen it... dormant will be displayed. 

But that's a second hand solution. Pressing / will re-generate whole
buffer, imagine 200 + articles, even more....

And pressing / D in every 20 groups when I launch gnus.

I would really like Gnus to allow showing dormants in the fist
buffer creation pass. 

And this is easy to implement, if I get permission to muck the
code and make a patch.

Jari