From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/16766 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: arrayp display group parameter ignored when selecting group Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 13:39:46 +0100 Message-ID: <87ob0zene5.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1395405624 30959 80.91.229.3 (21 Mar 2014 12:40:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 12:40:24 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 21 13:40:34 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WQykT-0002qh-Fj for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 13:40:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52504 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WQykQ-0002SJ-04 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 08:40:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58038) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WQykE-0002BC-HS for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 08:40:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WQyk7-0000KU-7g for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 08:40:18 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:55652) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WQyk6-0000K8-QE for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 08:40:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WQyk3-0002Fc-HZ for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 13:40:07 +0100 Original-Received: from ip-90-187-194-214.web.vodafone.de ([90.187.194.214]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 13:40:07 +0100 Original-Received: from michael_heerdegen by ip-90-187-194-214.web.vodafone.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 13:40:07 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-90-187-194-214.web.vodafone.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2pWO8H1J/XGy6YCy/o2HCMLdGC0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:16766 Archived-At: Hi, I regularly read a "large" Gmane newsgroup. I've a lot of ticked articles that I marked for later reading in some days when I have some time left. When I select the newsgroup on a normal (busy) day, I only want to see unseen news, not those marked for later reading. I don't want to be prompted for a number of articles to show, I just want to see the unseen articles, even when there are only two. According to the manual (info "(gnus) Group Parameters") this should be easily possible by using an array as display group parameter, [unseen] in my case. But this setting is just ignored. Instead, my setting of (setq gnus-parameter-large-newsgroup-initial-alist '((".*" . 50))) is used and I'm queried how much articles I want to read, default 50. I stepped through the code and saw that my 'display group parameter setting is being used, I see that `gnus-newsgroup-display' is bound to a lambda respecting my setting. But `gnus-articles-to-read' does only treat gnus-newsgroup-display values that are numbers, everything else is just ignored. Is this a missing functionality, or did I misinterpret the manual? I use gnus that comes with Emacs, and my Emacs is a recent built of trunk. Please CC me in your answers. Thanks, Michael.