Gnus-Topic ideas

[jvinson@cheux.ecs.umass.edu (Jack Vinson)]

Now that I have gnus topic working with v0.16, I'd like to make some
suggestions for more improvements.  (Or should I say "more improvements to
this already excellent code?"  :-)

- The documentation for the variable gnus-group-prepare-function needs to
  be revised to not mention gnus-group-prepare-topics.  Maybe the variable
  should be eliminated completely, since the only value it can take is
  'gnus-group-prepare-flat.  Alternatively, if it is
  'gnus-group-prepare-topics, then maybe the gnus topic mode should be
  turned on automagically.

- gnus-topic-kill-group should mention that if you kill a topic that all
  its groups will go as well.  And when you yank it back, the groups come
  with it.

- On a related note,  there seems to be no easy way reorder topics at the
  Gnus level.  (Why is that level there, anyway?)  For example:

  Gnus
     Alt
     Emacs
     Computers
        Programming
        Breaking
     Misc

  If I want to swap Comp and Emacs, how do I do it?  If I kill and then
  yank, the topic always gets inserted as a subtopic of the topic under the
  cursor.  Maybe a prefix argument to C-y to tell Gnus to insert the topic
  at the same level as the current topic.

- Killed topics are never really removed.  If I kill a topic and forget to
  yank it back, it returns as the last Gnus subtopic.  This is a good
  thing, since it is the only way to rearrange topics at the Gnus level.
  However, how would one remove a topic permanently?  Removing it from the
  gnus-group-topics should be a start.

- I'd like to see a way to go to the next topic via key strokes.  It would
  be nice to be able to jump between topics without having to hit n many
  times.  Maybe N to jump to next topic and P for previous topic.  How
  would this work with a full hierarchy?  Prefix argument could tell it to
  jump to a same-level topic, rather than the nearest neighbor.

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