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From: Lars-Johan Liman <info-gnus-english@cafax.se>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Universal "answered marks"?
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2021 07:11:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <22zgqck0a4.fsf@hiptop.liman.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v910lw38.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Wed, 10 Nov 2021 00:59:07 +0100")

Lars-Johan Liman <info-gnus-english@cafax.se> writes:
>> But if I reply to the message, the "A" mark that indicates that I have
>> answered the message only appears in the folder where I actually sat
>> when I replied. If I go to the other folder, there is no indication on
>> the summary line that I have replied to the message.

larsi@gnus.org 2021-11-10 00:59 [+0100]:
> I'm not sure that would be workeable in general -- it could be annoying
> to tick an article in one group and then having it be ticked in five
> other groups, too.  But perhaps that would be nice for certain article
> marks, like the "A" mark?  Actually, while I'm typing this, I get the
> feeling that Gnus does have support for it somewhere, but I can't find
> it...  Does anybody know whether this functionality is hiding somewhere?

Yes, I agree different marks have different properties in this respect.
My personal taste is that I would gladly see "seen", "read", "answered",
and "ticked" ("!") be "universal" (YMMV!). "Seen" and "read" already
work like this.

				Cheers,
				  /Liman


      reply	other threads:[~2021-11-10  6:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-09  7:00 Lars-Johan Liman
2021-11-09 23:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-10  6:11   ` Lars-Johan Liman [this message]

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