Re: A killer feature for Gnus ?

[Francis Moreau]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> What would be great is to mark articles with a special mark. Then in the
>> group buffer, one can create a virtual group which would gather all the
>> special marked articles. 
>
> I don't think this is feasible in Gnus.  The backends would have to
> download all the headers for all the groups whenever you hit `g' to
> achieve this, and that'd just take too long.

Hmm, why "for all the groups" ?

If you hit `g' on a 'starred' article, then you could have several
choices:

First, download the headers from the corresponding group until the
'starred' article Message-ID is found or a hard limit is reached.

If the hard limit is reached then output an error such as "Article can't
be found, increase hard limit ?"

If the Message-ID has been found then:

   - ask for the user how many headers he still wants to fetch
   - use a default value to fetch more headers

Is it not feasible ?

Thanks
-- 
Francis