From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ernobe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [Gnus] persistent marks Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 10:34:06 -0600 Organization: Baha'i Faith Message-ID: <87li0xwn41.fsf@002215fd0050.amnet.co.cr> References: <87eh6r3rwo.fsf@002215fd0050.amnet.co.cr> <87wqkir8en.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <87zjpe38y8.fsf@002215fd0050.amnet.co.cr> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1384016719 17588 80.91.229.3 (9 Nov 2013 17:05:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2013 17:05:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 09 18:05:23 2013 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 1VfByN-0006pI-2F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Nov 2013 18:05:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57798 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VfByM-0007FY-4r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Nov 2013 12:05:22 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 36 Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="aa62c9dfd94aa8dd21cd89a27766d80d"; logging-data="23204"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18C5ZqQEv9QVnVdwC34syb1" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:IPJrksHvNW/27Qqqep/uw8VYPUw= sha1:gH+RkOJEMcBDzL8N3YOptckNpNo= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:202140 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:94412 Archived-At: Eric Abrahamsen writes: > > If you use the registry it _might_ (this is all complete speculation) be > possible to add some custom marks to gnus-registry-marks: say "My > Pending Expire" and "My Pending Read". These marks would be meaningless > except that you'd write a custom function that found them and turned > them into the "real" expire and read marks. > > I totally made that up; there's any number of reasons why it might not > work... > Of course if I knew how to do that I'd probably be able to change the default keys instead. The problem with knowing (at least for an independent investigator like myself) is that there's the Emacs Lisp language on the one hand, and the Gnus Manual on the other. But have you tried reading the manual with 'C-h i'? I don't see how to navigate it without getting lost. If I only follow the 'Up' 'Next' 'Previous' links at the top of the page, I can get back to my original starting point, but if I follow links within the page, I can't hit a 'back' link to get back to my original starting point. So I downloaded the documentation and turned it into a single .info file, then used 'pinfo' to read it. Why there isn't a sane way to read it within Emacs, I don't know. I haven't looked at the Emacs Lisp documentation yet but suspect it is also not meant to help the independent researcher. Like college textbooks, these manuals are meant to be read by people who are under adult supervision in their researching. -- "The world of existence is an emanation of the merciful attribute of God." Abdu'l-Baha http://www.costarricense.cr/pagina/ernobe