Re: Any way to control which articles Gnus summary shows by default?

[Michael Heerdegen]

Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com> writes:

> Interesting but, isn't this exactly what happens when you tick an
> article? So is there some side-effect that is undesired for this
> purpose or why don't you want to use it?

I still try to find a good workflow for my Inbox.  In the past, I used
to tick nearly all articles, or make them unread, just to make them
appear the next time I select the group.

What I want in general is more control: I want to decide myself how Gnus
decides which articles it presents to me when I select a group.  In
particular, I want to have it depend on the information present in the
registry.


> What do you mean by "set" article?

I wrote "set unread" or so and meant "make the article unread".


> BTW `M M i' is undefined for me so maybe it is a new feature in Emacs
> 25 or did you configure that?

It's a feature when you enable the Gnus registry:

  (info "(gnus) Store custom flags and keywords")

Seems not many people use it so far, though.


> If you indeed got it to work, how about adding it to some hook/advice
> each time you enter a group?

I think you shouldn't need a hack to do this kind of thing.  A hack
would probably call `gnus-summary-limit', but it would be better if it
would be configurable out of the box.  Which I think is not the case.
The code responsible for group selection is quite complex, but I have
the impression that these things are hardcoded.


Thanks,

Michael.