From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/14005 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim Landscheidt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Remembering read mail Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:20:01 +0000 Organization: Message-ID: References: <87d3vxzx73.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1276255545 18517 80.91.229.12 (11 Jun 2010 11:25:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:25:45 +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 Jun 11 13:25:39 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ON2Mj-0000Cn-3L for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:25:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:32875 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ON2Mi-0005Zk-6A for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Jun 2010 07:25:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59011 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ON2Md-0005ZN-Ok for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jun 2010 07:25:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ON2MF-0001Uq-7F for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jun 2010 07:25:11 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:59784) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ON2ME-0001UH-W6 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jun 2010 07:25:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ON2MB-0008Rg-Uu for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:25:03 +0200 Original-Received: from d220035.adsl.hansenet.de ([80.171.220.35]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:25:03 +0200 Original-Received: from tim by d220035.adsl.hansenet.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:25:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org connect(): No such file or directory Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: d220035.adsl.hansenet.de Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:fRUuEoMbkP1ZYfrlrlTxCm+UiqY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:14005 Archived-At: Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > I'm a new gnus user, and have got things sorted to the point where I can > check multiple accounts, send via multiple SMTP servers (msmtp), and > read this newsgroup via gnus (I won't know if I'm able to post until I > send this). I haven't switched away from Evolution (I'm on Ubuntu Lucid) > because of a bunch of little confusions/trepidations, but I'm getting > close. > One thing stopping me is the article summary list. I'm finding it very > confusing to look at, largely because the "read" status of messages is > not remembered between Gnus invocations. Every time I open the group all > the messages are unmarked. As I read them they turn bright blue-green > and get a "R" in the margin. Next time I open the group they're all > unmarked again. > This seems backwards to me: shouldn't unread messages be marked > specially, then unmarked as you read them? And then that status > remembered somehow? > Can someone point me in the right direction? Do you use q to exit the summary buffer? Tim