Re: Packing nnml folders...

[Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com>]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Jon Allen Boone wrote:
> 
>> ;;; Proposed:  Add a new function nnml-pack-directory to nnml.el 
>> ;;;
>> ;;; Purpose:  This function will renumber articles within a directory so
>> ;;;                   that they are densely numbered starting from
>> ;;;                   number 1. 
> 
> This is not easily done from the backend, since Gnus stores article
> numbers in ~/.newsrc.eld.
> 
> Doing the following is fairly simple and could be written into a
> function; why bother with the hard stuff?
> 
> M-x set-variable RET gnus-large-newsgroup RET nil RET
> C-u RET
> M P a
> B m <insert-group-name-here> RET
> q
> M-x set-variable RET gnus-large-newsgroup RET <old-value> RET

I tried this, and it doesn't renumber the articles from 1.  It just
repacks them to a range starting one higher than the highest article
number of the previous range (as expected).  And besides,
`gnus-large-newsgroup' is already set to nil for me.


Is there a function that will automatically copy all of the newsgroup
customization settings (i.e., the "G c" information) from one group to
another?  If so, then this proposed "repacking from 1" function could
follow the steps I outlined in my previous message, but before
deleting the original group, it could copy its customization settings
to the new group.

As soon as I figure out how to mass-copy the customization settings,
I'll write the function that does this "repacking from 1" operation
for nnml groups.

Any ideas?


> kai
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