From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: allan gottlieb Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: GNUs group article counts Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 23:31:19 -0500 Message-ID: <87d1ngcu7c.fsf@nyu.edu> References: <87lh26fado.fsf@torysa.worldsendless> <87fusd3kba.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1466138987 22475 80.91.229.3 (17 Jun 2016 04:49:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 04:49:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 17 06:49:36 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 1bDlio-0008St-6G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Jun 2016 06:49:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53822 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bDlin-000554-CS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Jun 2016 00:49:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60882) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bDlhl-0004eR-PL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jun 2016 00:48:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bDlhf-0002dx-Pm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jun 2016 00:48:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mx2.cims.nyu.edu ([128.122.49.96]:44308) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bDlhf-0002dt-Ls for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Jun 2016 00:48:23 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (smtp.cs.nyu.edu [128.122.49.97]) by mx2.cims.nyu.edu (8.15.1+Sun/8.15.1) with ESMTP id u5H4mLpe015569 for ; Fri, 17 Jun 2016 00:48:21 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from E7450.localdomain (c-24-15-64-8.hsd1.il.comcast.net [24.15.64.8]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.15.2/8.15.1) with ESMTPSA id u5H4mHn3003757 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 17 Jun 2016 00:48:21 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by E7450.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F2FBF479B1; Thu, 16 Jun 2016 23:31:19 -0500 (CDT) In-Reply-To: <87fusd3kba.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Wed, 15 Jun 2016 23:05:13 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.1 (mx2.cims.nyu.edu [128.122.49.96]); Fri, 17 Jun 2016 00:48:21 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.4 at mx2 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.73 on 128.122.49.96 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 128.122.49.96 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:110476 Archived-At: On Wed, Jun 15 2016, Ted Zlatanov wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 17:27:20 -0400 allan gottlieb wrot= e:=20 > > 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?=20 > > 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 > =E2=80=98gnus-group.el=E2=80=99. > > (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