From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: GNUs group article counts Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 23:05:13 -0400 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87fusd3kba.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87lh26fado.fsf@torysa.worldsendless> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1466046631 20024 80.91.229.3 (16 Jun 2016 03:10:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 03:10:31 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 16 05:10:29 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 1bDNhM-0004Jr-4R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2016 05:10:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46116 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bDNhK-00017g-Vy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2016 23:10:27 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uio.no!news.unit0.net!news.mixmin.net!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Trace: news.albasani.net uZ7Bf0MZxYNLS17y8tPtwfnpoLdgYc7BaWR6hdz22PSz8jjOQ9R5cy/tMQ9/kadVACphQJn4S51NZL0qeLQ1RsHtawGyl0PCN998SxXbke007gUo2GA5pm/n4wO3bww+ Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 03:05:13 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="v6z2TW+50rFMUEBNw/zjNyJJh1qF0p6LDwdZuBzSCTG5/aS7iGjgt2iij+UWyDuPc8OIvyuTlUlj1wUfwIbRoe/DWRA3IgxZH1L8yUHtj+ZVcxPompuRDHnoVOfO/ruw"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Cancel-Lock: sha1:MPoemlL8ObEXvBtLiim21qV/fQ4= sha1:/JFMHljUCAIdBynLneAValpq6Cc= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:218148 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:110457 Archived-At: On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 17:27:20 -0400 allan gottlieb 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