Feature Request: Speed reading groups

Feature Request: Speed reading groups

[Jari Aalto+mail.emacs]

If I get new mail, in 100% of the case I want to enter to group, limited
only to those articles that are new and mark them D, E, or write
immediate replies.

Would you think this would be a nice addition to Gnus?

I have changed function gnus-topic-read-group to do this, or more
precisely, it has an top-level umbrealla function to determine how
group should be entered.

Jari


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Re: Feature Request: Speed reading groups

[Chris Halverson]

posting-list@MailAndNews.com (Jari Aalto+mail.emacs) writes:

> If I get new mail, in 100% of the case I want to enter to group, limited
> only to those articles that are new and mark them D, E, or write
> immediate replies.
> 
> Would you think this would be a nice addition to Gnus?

Unless I'm missing something, it's already there. When I enter a
group, I only see new articles. I have to C-u = or C-u RET to see the
rest. Did you or I change something from the default? Am I
misunderstanding your question?

cdh

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Re: Feature Request: Speed reading groups

[Sean Doran]

Here is what I think is being asked for, and what I would
like to see.

Feature #1: complemeting C-u 9 9 RET entering a group and
            examining the 99 most recent articles, a way
            to enter the group and examine articles
            falling within a particular set of dates

<somekeystroke> <datespec> RET
(interactive) enters group and examines any article that falls within <datespec>

<datespec> may be <mindate> <maxdate>
Most common datespecs probably would be:
        min-date = last time of gnus-group-get-new-news, max-date = now
        min-date = some hours/minutes/seconds ago, max-date = now
        min-date = some absolute time, max-date = now
        min-date = some absolute time, max-date = some absolute time
which somewhat lend themselves to currying around the last choice.

Feature #2: replacing guilty secretive use of UCB Mail by
            some hardcore Gnus users who do heavy
            splitting and often don't get around to some
            groups before their split-out messages are
            "stale", particularly when ill-thought-out
            Subject lines cause real Bcc-ed messages to
            be put into a "spam" newsgroup

A one-shot semi-ephemeral newsgroup built out of $MAIL
which allows for deletion in the
gnus-summary-delete-article sense, and updating the
Status: headers in the way UCB Mail does.

No group state is retained.  Upon quitting the group, the
group disappears from the *Group* buffer.

Use of this semi-ephemeral group should lock out
gnus-group-get-new-news and vice-versa.

This would be used to read *all* new mail since last
gnus-group-get-new-news call, "spam" and all, rather than
only that split into a specific group.

        Sean.

Re: Feature Request: Speed reading groups

[Harry Putnam]

posting-list@MailAndNews.com (Jari Aalto+mail.emacs) writes:

> If I get new mail, in 100% of the case I want to enter to group, limited
> only to those articles that are new and mark them D, E, or write
> immediate replies.
> 
> Would you think this would be a nice addition to Gnus?
> 
> I have changed function gnus-topic-read-group to do this, or more
> precisely, it has an top-level umbrealla function to determine how
> group should be entered.

Since displaying only unread is the default, I'll assume, by `new' you
mean messages that are newer than other unread that were there for a while.

That sounds a bit complicated and somewhat hard to see the utility of it.

Re: Feature Request: Speed reading groups

[Jari Aalto+mail.emacs]

* 2001-01-05 Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> list.emacs-ding
* Message-Id: <m31yuhz52m.fsf@gnus-5.8.8-cvs.now.playing>
| posting-list@MailAndNews.com (Jari Aalto+mail.emacs) writes:
| 
| > If I get new mail, in 100% of the case I want to enter to group, limited
| > only to those articles that are new and mark them D, E, or write
| > immediate replies.
| > 
| > Would you think this would be a nice addition to Gnus?
| > 
| > I have changed function gnus-topic-read-group to do this, or more
| > precisely, it has an top-level umbrealla function to determine how
| > group should be entered.
| 
| Since displaying only unread is the default, I'll assume, by `new' you
| mean messages that are newer than other unread that were there for a while.

I mean completely new. The newly arrived messages only.

Jari