[mew-int 2156] Re: news and news threads

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > . 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?

What about a message for the overlapping case:

  (r) Refetch all xxx messages?  (u) Update?

> > . 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:
>
> 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.

What about checking whether the (truncated) message's buffer is
visible?  Then an update should be done.

> >    I have to press `v' twice, for example, to see the
> >   complete message.  This is a serious flaw IMHO.
>
> How about typing "." just once?

If the above can't be implemented I probably have to get used to it...

> >   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.

I know that, but while reading news you have to type this character so
often that IMHO it deserves a default assignment to a key which can be
typed more easily.

> > . 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.

Thanks.  It's not obvious how to find that.  Perhaps you can improve
the documentation a bit.

> > . 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.

OK.

> > . 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?

Sorry for being imprecise.  Example:

  . You first do an `last:500' to get 500 truncated messages.

  . Calling the hypothetical function `mew-get-all-bodies', mew starts
    to fetch all bodies for the truncated messages, from top to down,
    in the background (similar to the `i' command which also runs in
    the background).


  Werner