Article Tagging a la OrgMode
Volkan YAZICI
Is it possible to tag (school, work, server, security, etc.) articles
in the summary buffer, in a similar fashion to orgmode tags and use
these tags to filter articles somehow?
Regards.
Ted Zlatanov
VY> Is it possible to tag (school, work, server, security, etc.) articles
VY> in the summary buffer, in a similar fashion to orgmode tags and use
VY> these tags to filter articles somehow?
The registry will let you assign labels to articles and display them.
These labels have any name and you can associate a visual mark with the
article, too.
There is no functionality yet to filter based on these tags but it
should not be hard to implement.
Ted
Volkan YAZICI
> On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:49:41 -0800 (PST) Volkan YAZICI <volkan.yaz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> VY> Is it possible to tag (school, work, server, security, etc.) articles
> VY> in the summary buffer, in a similar fashion to orgmode tags and use
> VY> these tags to filter articles somehow?
>
> The registry will let you assign labels to articles and display them.
> These labels have any name and you can associate a visual mark with the
> article, too.
I think you refer to gnus-registry.el file. I found it in the gnus
sources but nor googling, neither reading the sources provided any
useful documentation. (I still couldn't grasp totally what gnus-
registry does.) Would you mind eloborating the steps you mentioned
above a little bit please?
> There is no functionality yet to filter based on these tags but it
> should not be hard to implement.
Any clues for the initial speed?
Regards.
Vagn Johansen
> On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:49:41 -0800 (PST) Volkan YAZICI <volkan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> VY> Is it possible to tag (school, work, server, security, etc.) articles
> VY> in the summary buffer, in a similar fashion to orgmode tags and use
> VY> these tags to filter articles somehow?
>
> The registry will let you assign labels to articles and display them.
> These labels have any name and you can associate a visual mark with the
> article, too.
How?
Looking at the interactive functions in gnus-registry.el I do not see
how to accomplish this.
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Vagn Johansen
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Ted Zlatanov
VJ> Ted Zlatanov <t...@lifelogs.com> writes:
>> The registry will let you assign labels to articles and display them.
>> These labels have any name and you can associate a visual mark with the
>> article, too.
VJ> Looking at the interactive functions in gnus-registry.el I do not see
VJ> how to accomplish this.
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:09:17 -0800 (PST) Volkan YAZICI <volkan...@gmail.com> wrote:
VY> I think you refer to gnus-registry.el file. I found it in the gnus
VY> sources but nor googling, neither reading the sources provided any
VY> useful documentation. (I still couldn't grasp totally what gnus-
VY> registry does.) Would you mind eloborating the steps you mentioned
VY> above a little bit please?
Sorry that it wasn't clear. I put comments in the variable definitions
in the code. You just need a recent Gnus checkout from CVS. Customize
gnus-registry-marks as you like. You must reload gnus-registry.el
because it creates functions based on what marks you define, or run
gnus-registry-install-shortcuts manually.
Then use gnus-registry-mark-article to set the mark. It will do
completion so you can select which mark you want. You can also use the
menu to select a specific mark or the corresponding function that looks
like gnus-registry-set-article-Important-mark (there's a corresponding
gnus-registry-remove-article-Important-mark).
The registry is a general hashtable that can store the following
associated with a message ID:
- the group(s) where it's been seen (updated on copy/move/delete), this
is not reliable because you can limit the total registry size
- any extra information, always reliable: it's never expunged even if
the size of the registry is limited
- extra marks (stored in the extra information): any number of symbols
stored in a list to represent the desired article marks
Also note you can use
(defalias 'gnus-user-format-function-M
'gnus-registry-user-format-function-M)
and then %uM in your summary format line to show the registry marks
automatically.
>> There is no functionality yet to filter based on these tags but it
>> should not be hard to implement.
VY> Any clues for the initial speed?
Getting the registry marks requires a hashtable lookup and then a short
alist walk to get the marks, so I'd expect it to be fast.
Ted