From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Gnus state, feed commands Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 08:53:26 +0700 Message-ID: <87pppx40o9.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87ob5k1a9q.fsf__48304.1452513591$1384626024$gmane$org@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <87bo1jjg1w.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <87mwl11hry.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1384825941 28510 80.91.229.3 (19 Nov 2013 01:52:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 01:52:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 19 02:52:25 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 1ViaUK-00007A-LK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 02:52:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46671 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ViaUK-0001gl-6K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Nov 2013 20:52:24 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39504) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ViaU4-0001fW-Ml for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Nov 2013 20:52:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ViaTz-0007X3-FU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Nov 2013 20:52:08 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:55700) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ViaTz-0007Wk-6t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Nov 2013 20:52:03 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ViaTu-0008Qi-HI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 02:51:58 +0100 Original-Received: from 223.204.248.142 ([223.204.248.142]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 02:51:58 +0100 Original-Received: from eric by 223.204.248.142 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 02:51:58 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 223.204.248.142 User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3Krxgm/bl6hT40/E0Am+AoxAaD4= 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: 2.1.14 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:94535 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > Eric Abrahamsen writes: > >>> Yes, I was told on gnu.emacs.gnus that I was >>> possible to do like this: >>> (gnus-number-of-unseen-articles-in-group >>> "gnu.emacs.help") >> >> Weird, I wonder what the difference is supposed to >> be. On my installation, anyway, with three unread >> messages in "gmane.emacs.help", gnus-group-unread >> returns 3, and >> gnus-number-of-unseen-articles-in-group returns >> 0. Strange. > > Is there a difference between "unread" and "unseen" > perhaps? Beats me, I haven't looked into the code. But I'd expect to get back the same number gnus shows next to the group name in the *Group* buffer. For me, at least, I only got that from gnus-group-unread. >> Also, if you use topics, the easiest way to get the >> full number of unread messages would probably be to >> run gnus-topic-unread on the top-level topic. > > No, never heard of topics? They're like meta-groups for groups: just a way of categorizing your groups in the *Group* buffer. Hit 't' to see. Even if you don't use them, you could probably check out the code...