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- Subject: Re: gnus-Group-kill-group and gnus-Group-list-all-groups
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- Organization: NASA Ames Research Center AI Research Branch (Sterling).
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 04:15:00 GMT
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- maybe just have one toggle, more or less like we have now, to toggle
- between one FULL display, where MARKS are used to distinguish
- newsgroup types, and one SHORT display, which hides boring newsgroup
- types (killed newsgroups, unsubscribed newsgroups, and constituent
- newsgroups of a virtual newsgroup).
-
- thus killed groups still have different semantics (for speed) but a
- consistent interface.
-
- U, K (for killed), and C (for constitituent) are marks, and things can
- be done for moving or hiding as are done in vm or gnus. (note that
- constituent groups are indented and can be hidden much like threads
- can be. the virtual newsgroup is in uppercase to distinguish it from
- a real newsgroup.)
-
- here is the FULL display, with all the marks:
-
- U 433: ba.market.housing
- K 1: bionet.jobs
- 4: BIOLOGY
- C 2: bionet.neuroscience
- C 2: bit.listserv.ethology
- * 5: fi.sun.users
- * 1: fi.talks
- 4: gnu.emacs.gnus
-
- here is the SHORT display that you will read most of the time:
-
- 4: BIOLOGY (bionet.neuroscience bit.listserv.ethology)
- * 5: fi.sun.users
- * 1: fi.talks
- 4: gnu.emacs.gnus
-
- i say forget about having separate modes and screens and command sets
- and so on. just use marks. it's a familiar paradigm and it should be
- flexible enough.
- --
- does anyone else in cogsci or ai want to compare career notes?
-