Re: A killer feature for Gnus ?

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Sun, 07 Nov 2010 21:25:18 +0100, Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was thinking about what would be the most usefull feature that I
> miss in Gnus.
>
> And I come up with something available with a Google's news group
> interface feature (well this is probably the only one with its search
> engine).
>
> Indeed it's possible to mark articles with a star and all articles
> with such marks can be gathered in one place. So it means that if you
> want to follow several discussions which belong to several different
> news groups, you don't have to remember which group with interesting
> stuff, and which stuff it is. You can go to that 'bookmark' page and
> retrieve any hot discussions in one view. Actually Google is able to
> tell me if a hot discussion got a new message.
>
> However I don't think it's possible for Gnus to do something similar.
>
> What would be great is to mark articles with a special mark. Then in
> the group buffer, one can create a virtual group which would gather
> all the special marked articles. So when entering this group, one can
> see all his interesting discussions. Then selecting an article in this
> group would jump to the 'real' group (gnu.emacs.gnus for example) and
> place the cursor on it.
>
> Does that sound usefull ?

Yes, it sounds useful.

It seems like an extension of nnvirtual groups with the extra twist of
"filtering" articles from the virtual group sources :-)