From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Schmitt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: gnus terminology question: new messages vs messages seen but not read Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 18:25:41 +0100 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1395077171 28155 80.91.229.3 (17 Mar 2014 17:26:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 17:26:11 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 17 18:26:20 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WPbIl-0006oC-1v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2014 18:26:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59321 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WPbIk-0000qW-Lk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2014 13:26:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51781) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WPbIS-0000ff-Iv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2014 13:26:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WPbIJ-0003gn-LA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2014 13:25:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr ([192.134.164.104]:13296) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WPbIJ-0003g7-FH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2014 13:25:47 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.97,671,1389740400"; d="scan'208";a="53021269" Original-Received: from cbg35-2-78-242-14-140.fbx.proxad.net (HELO top-wifi) ([78.242.14.140]) by mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/AES128-SHA; 17 Mar 2014 18:25:45 +0100 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (darwin) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 192.134.164.104 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96564 Archived-At: Hello, I would like to configure something in gnus, but I don't know the terminology so I don't know what to search for. When I visit a mailbox, messages I've never seen have a small dot in their status. When I quit the mailbox, these messages will lose their dots if I visit the mailbox again even if I have not read them. There is thus a distinction between never seen messages, and seen (but unread) messages. When I open a mailbox, the cursor is put on the first never seen message if there is one, and on the first unread message otherwise. I would like the cursor to be put on the first message unread in every case. My questions are: what is the terminology for these "never seen before" messages? And is there a configuration variable to choose the message on which to focus when opening a mailbox? Thanks a lot, Alan