From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1047 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steven E. Harris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: What's the difference between gnus-recent-mark and gnus-unseen-mark? Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 09:14:54 -0700 Organization: Raytheon Company Message-ID: <87u1l476rl.fsf@harris.sdo.us.ray.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138667884 9520 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:38:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:38:04 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:28:33 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!usenet01.sei.cmu.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!HSNX.atgi.net!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!151.164.30.35!cyclone.swbell.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) XEmacs/21.4 (Informed Management (Windows [2]), i686-pc-cygwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Rbs9NXCBNjuor9JPOhN24sotsOs= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.27.62.58 Original-X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com Original-X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1031242484 192.27.62.58 (Thu, 05 Sep 2002 12:14:44 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 12:14:44 EDT Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1187 Original-Lines: 18 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1187 Tue Jan 17 17:28:33 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1047 Archived-At: Having upgraded to Oort 0.07 yesterday, I noticed that my nnimap groups use a leading 'N' to indicate unseen messages, while the rest of my groups still use the '.' (period). I had grown accustomed to the more discreet '.' and find the 'N' a little noisy. Before I force these two marks back to the same character, I'd like to know what the difference is supposed to be. The Gnus manual alludes¹ to guns-recent-mark being determined by the back-end, while gnus-unseen-mark is used otherwise. Why does this implementation detail yield a different user interface? Footnotes: ¹ http://www.gnus.org/manual/gnus_68.html#SEC67 -- Steven E. Harris :: seharris@raytheon.com Raytheon :: http://www.raytheon.com