From: allan gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GNUs group article counts
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 23:31:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d1ngcu7c.fsf@nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fusd3kba.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Wed, 15 Jun 2016 23:05:13 -0400")
On Wed, Jun 15 2016, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 17:27:20 -0400 allan gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu> wrote:
>
> ag> On Wed, Jun 15 2016, Tory S. Anderson wrote:
>>> 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?
>
> ag> The problem is that the number that is 10x is calculated as
>
> ag> highest article number minus lowest article number
>
> ag> So just removing articles in the middle doesn't change it.
>
> ag> There is a "global" command that I used once (but forgot its name)
> ag> that eliminates the holes in the numbers.
>
> gnus-group-compact-group is an interactive compiled Lisp function in
> ‘gnus-group.el’.
>
> (gnus-group-compact-group GROUP)
>
> Compact the current group.
> Compaction means removing gaps between article numbers. Hence, this
> operation is only meaningful for back ends using one file per article
> (e.g. nnml).
>
> Note: currently only implemented in nnml.
>
> HTH
> Ted
(gnus-group-compact-group GROUP) works great. Thanks.
allan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-17 4:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-15 20:46 GNUs group article counts Tory S. Anderson
2016-06-15 21:27 ` allan gottlieb
2016-06-15 21:37 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-06-15 21:28 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.1567.1466026052.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-06-16 3:05 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-06-17 4:31 ` allan gottlieb [this message]
2016-07-22 3:20 ` gnus-group-compact-group and expiry allan gottlieb
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