Re: Groups which have new mails

[Danny Siu <dsiu@Adobe.COM>]

Justin Sheehy writes:

  Justin> [...]

  >> I can't find better way of keeping the articles I need to re-visit or
  >> reply.

  Justin> Between unread, read, ticked and dormant, I find that I have all I
  Justin> need.

  >> I use tick marks for articles I want to keep in the group till hell
  >> freezes.

  Justin> This is what I use the dormant mark for.

That's right.  I never thought of using dormant mark that way. *sigh* (I use
dormant to mark articles which I want to read its followups)

  Justin> I use the tick mark for articles that I have seen, but need to do
  Justin> something with.

  >> I don't use read marks at all because 'C-u SPC' (to see all articles)
  >> on a group with many articles is VERY slow (at least for nnfolder
  >> anyways.

  Justin> For all of my normal mail groups, I use nnml.  It is the fastest
  Justin> backend for opening large groups.

Well, I think if I stick with using dormant mark and tick mark the way you
use them for, I don't even need do 'C-u SPC' ever, since '/ D' in summary
gives me all dormant articles almost instantly!  Also, I set
gnus-total-expirable-newsgroups to match all my mail groups, all read
articles are expirable right the way, therefore, no ancient articles to deal
with -> no need to do 'C-u SPC'.

  >> Also, movement commands doesn't work well on read articles ('n'/'p'
  >> moves between unread articles only).

  Justin> Right, and sometimes that is what you want.  If you want to move
  Justin> between articles regardless of readedness, use N and P.

'N' and 'P' does what I need.

Thanks Justin!
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