[gnu.emacs.gnus] gnus-large-newsgroup

weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Joe Weening) (02/27/89)

The new variable gnus-large-newsgroup is quite useful, but there is a
problem.  I use (setq gnus-auto-select-next 'quietly), so when I type
"n" to the last message in a group, it goes on immediately to the next
group.  If the new group has a large number of messages, it will then
type the question "How many articles", but the name of the newsgroup
is nowhere on the screen.  This makes it hard to decide whether to
accept the default or choose a smaller number.

Joe Weening                                Computer Science Dept.
weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU          Stanford University

ben@ulrich.mth.msu.edu (Ben Lotto) (03/12/89)

Here is the problem:

>   problem.  I use (setq gnus-auto-select-next 'quietly), so when I type
>   "n" to the last message in a group, it goes on immediately to the next
>   group.  If the new group has a large number of messages, it will then
>   type the question "How many articles", but the name of the newsgroup
>   is nowhere on the screen.  This makes it hard to decide whether to
>   accept the default or choose a smaller number.

Here is my fix (context sensitive diff) which can be applied with patch: 

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*** gnus.el	Sat Mar 11 10:49:26 1989
--- gnus.el.~1~	Fri Feb 24 09:52:03 1989
***************
*** 4046,4053 ****
  		      (let ((input
  			     (read-string
  			      (format
! 			       "How many articles from %s (default %d): "
! 			       gnus-newsgroup-name number))))
  			(setq selected
  			      (if (string-equal input "")
  				  number (string-to-int input))))
--- 4046,4052 ----
  		      (let ((input
  			     (read-string
  			      (format
! 			       "How many articles (default %d): " number))))
  			(setq selected
  			      (if (string-equal input "")
  				  number (string-to-int input))))
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-B. A. Lotto  (ben@ulrich.mth.msu.edu)
Department of Mathematics/Michigan State University/East Lansing, MI  48824