[mew-int 2155] Re: news and news threads

[Kazu Yamamoto ( 山本和彦 )]

Hello,

> . Assume that I did `last:500' yesterday.  Meanwhile there are 30 new
>   entries.  Today I do `last:500' again.  Is there any reason why mew
>   regets the already available 470 messages?  I suggest that mew
>   checks whether we are still using the same news host, then the
>   `last:xxx' command should be identical to `update' if the ranges
>   overlap.

This is basically good. But some users may want to really re-fetch all
500 messages (because of consistency problems). How can we satisfy
both you and them?

> . I can do `t SPACE' to hide the leaves of a single thread.  What's
>   the corresponding command to do that for the whole (virtual) thread
>   buffer of the current news group?  This would make the
>   representation much more compact.

Sounds good. I will implement it.

> . I've already reported that pressing `I' on a message which is marked
>   with a `T', and which is viewed currently, doesn't refresh the
>   message buffer: 

Yes.

It would be convenient but I'm afraid that it will break consistency.
While retrieving a message with "I", Mew does not block a user. The user
can do anything: reading the next message, etc.

It means that users do not always stay the same message while
retrieving a message. 

>    I have to press `v' twice, for example, to see the
>   complete message.  This is a serious flaw IMHO.  

How about typing "." just once?

>   Meanwhile I think
>   that it's another flaw that you use the uppercase letter `I' for
>   this command: It is *very* inconvenient to type.  What do you think
>   of using `.' instead?

"." is bound to another command described above.
If you don't like the default key binding, you should customize
it by yourself.

> . Is it possible to have a different `mew-summary-form' for news?  For
>   example, I would like to reduce the width of the `from' field,
>   increasing the `subj' field.

Yes. See the 'mew-summary-form-list' variable.

> . Please add a command similar to `I' which gets the bodies of all
>   messages in the current thread.  It seems that for news you could
>   use `C-u I' for that; it doesn't interfere with current meaning for
>   mails, I think.

This should be bound to "tI". Note that "t" is reserved for thread
commands.

> . Another nice thing would be to ask mew for doing `I' on the complete
>   news buffer.  On good internet connections this would be fast enough
>   to complete in a short time.

I don't understand this. What does "on the complete news buffer" mean?

--Kazu Yamamoto