From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: GNUs group article counts Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 23:28:42 +0200 Message-ID: <86fusejg51.fsf@student.uu.se> References: <87lh26fado.fsf@torysa.worldsendless> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1466026179 26084 80.91.229.3 (15 Jun 2016 21:29:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 21:29:39 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 15 23:29:24 2016 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 1bDINH-00054U-MO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2016 23:29:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45199 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bDING-0000C9-Q8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2016 17:29:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38838) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bDIMr-0000Bo-5i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2016 17:28:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bDIMm-0003Pw-5h for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2016 17:28:57 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:41421) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bDIMl-0003Oy-Us for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2016 17:28:52 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bDIMj-0004Zj-KF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2016 23:28:49 +0200 Original-Received: from c-9ce1e655.08-680-7570702.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se ([85.230.225.156]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2016 23:28:49 +0200 Original-Received: from embe8573 by c-9ce1e655.08-680-7570702.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2016 23:28:49 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 46 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-9ce1e655.08-680-7570702.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:v8UbC2CMtuPnAQD04nciHMEX0qs= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:110453 Archived-At: torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson) writes: > I have done some massive expiry work on some > of my groups, to where now an exhaustive list > of messages shows something like 1100; > however, when in group view and I tell it to > enter the group, it is still telling me to > choose up to 10x that number. I want to make > sure I am clearing disc space and really > optimizing things; how can I make the count > correct, or do I need to do something more > than expiration? Well, first, it is Gnus, not "GNUs" (it is a pun on "news" and GNU, I always thought). There was a Gnus prior to Gnus, which was called GNUS. Gnus was initially known as "ding" (for "ding is not GNUS") but it didn't take. All this obviously long before my time... To try to answer your question, in the group buffer, the number of *unread* articles in a group should be indicated somewhere on the line. Exactly where depends on you `gnus-group-line-format' variable. You can examine it and look for %N in the format string. In the help, it says %N Number of unread articles (integer) Now, if you hit RET with point on a group, if there are unread articles, those are what you get. But if there are no unread articles, then you are prompted how many *old* articles to fetch, as there is no such natural implication as it is on the "unread" side of things! And stop worrying about disc space. -- underground experts united .... http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 Emacs Gnus Blogomatic ......... http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/blogomatic - so far: 48 Blogomatic articles -