Re: Gnus state, feed commands

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>>> Yes, I was told on gnu.emacs.gnus that I was
>>> possible to do like this:
>>> (gnus-number-of-unseen-articles-in-group
>>> "gnu.emacs.help")
>>
>> Weird, I wonder what the difference is supposed to
>> be. On my installation, anyway, with three unread
>> messages in "gmane.emacs.help", gnus-group-unread
>> returns 3, and
>> gnus-number-of-unseen-articles-in-group returns
>> 0. Strange.
>
> Is there a difference between "unread" and "unseen"
> perhaps?

Beats me, I haven't looked into the code. But I'd expect to get back the
same number gnus shows next to the group name in the *Group* buffer. For
me, at least, I only got that from gnus-group-unread.

>> Also, if you use topics, the easiest way to get the
>> full number of unread messages would probably be to
>> run gnus-topic-unread on the top-level topic.
>
> No, never heard of topics?

They're like meta-groups for groups: just a way of categorizing your
groups in the *Group* buffer. Hit 't' to see. Even if you don't use
them, you could probably check out the code...