Re: Pterodactly gripe / oGnus wish

[sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor])]

Hi Karl,

thanks for the extensive explanation.  I guess I'm slow with this:

>>>>> "Karl" == Karl Kleinpaste <karl@justresearch.com> writes:

Karl> sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de writes:

>> And why can't Gnus look up the relevant information when constructing
>> the *Group* buffer?  At the latest, it should look it up when it
>> prompts me for a number.  There's something fundamental I'm not
>> getting here, or there's a fundamental design flaw in Gnus.

Karl> The whole point of the query is to ask if you really want Gnus to
Karl> commit to spending all that time, constructing all that information,
Karl> for some apparently-but-unreal very large set of articles.

But it seems the operation which consumes all that time is
constructing the Summary buffer, rather than counting the actual
number of articles.  Can't those two be decoupled, at least for the
local mail backends?

-- 
Cheers =8-} Mike
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