Re: better gnus-thread-score-function

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Hubert Canon <hcanon@free.fr> writes:

>> It sounds like a good idea, but do we really need the divisor?  Could
>> you get rid of that variable and submit a patch?
>
> I don't quite exactly understand what you propose : that I get rid of
> that variable and that I put it inside the function ?

You can compute the maximum number of articles in the threads and use
that, perhaps.  But if it doesn't make any difference what the number
is, just hard-code it in the function.

> As a matter of fact, I am not so easy with the internals of gnus yet ;
> I need time to look into before I change anything. In order to debug
> more efficiently, I would like to know what is exactly a "thread" for
> gnus-thread-total-score : I would like to display the total score of a
> (sub-)thread in the summary buffer.

It's basically a tree on the form

([header] subthread subtread ...)

where each subthread has the same structure.

This is somewhat complicated by the presence of gathered threads,
which look like

("subject" subthread subtread ...)

That should be it, unless I've forgotten some complexities of the
structure. 

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