killing subthread

killing subthread

[Dirk Meyer]

Hi,

I have a problem killing subthreads. E.g. I have a thread like this: 

[ article ]
  [ article 1 ]
    [ article 1.1 ]
  [ article 2 ]
    [ article 2.1 ]

When I read the top article and reenter the group, the thread looks
like this:

[ article 1 ]
  [ article 1.1 ]
  < article 2 >
    [ article 2.1 ]

That's what I want: one thread containing all loose threads. Now I read
article 1 and think: "off topic", I don't want to read this
subthread. How can I kill the subthread 1 without killing subthread 2?
When I invoke gnus-summary-kill-thread all articles are killed.

I want to mark the article 1 as killed and all articles from this
subthread as killed (or read) and then I use adaptive scoring to make
sure I don't read anything from this subthread again. But I want all
articles from subthread 2 marked as unread.


Dirk

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Re: killing subthread

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Dirk Meyer <dmeyer@tzi.de> writes:

> That's what I want: one thread containing all loose threads. Now I read
> article 1 and think: "off topic", I don't want to read this
> subthread. How can I kill the subthread 1 without killing subthread 2?

There is no pre-defined functionality in Gnus for doing this.

Perhaps there should be a separate command that worked on strict
threads... 

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Re: killing subthread

[Kai Großjohann]

Dirk Meyer <dmeyer@tzi.de> writes:

> When I read the top article and reenter the group, the thread looks
> like this:
>
> [ article 1 ]
>   [ article 1.1 ]
>   < article 2 >
>     [ article 2.1 ]
>
> That's what I want: one thread containing all loose threads. Now I read
> article 1 and think: "off topic", I don't want to read this
> subthread. How can I kill the subthread 1 without killing subthread 2?
> When I invoke gnus-summary-kill-thread all articles are killed.

Does it work if you tell Gnus to insert an empty dummy article for the
thread root?

kai
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Re: killing subthread

[Per Abrahamsen]

Dirk Meyer <dmeyer@tzi.de> writes:

> [ article 1 ]
>   [ article 1.1 ]
>   < article 2 >
>     [ article 2.1 ]

I suggest using one or both of the below, this will make article 1 and
article 2 be siblings by creating an old or empty common root article.

(setq gnus-fetch-old-headers 1000.0)
(setq gnus-build-sparse-threads 'some)