Re: [Pan-users] Re: How do I get a header count for all groups?

[Aniruddha]

On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 06:36 +0000, Duncan wrote:
> Aniruddha <address@hidden> posted
> address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Sat, 01
> Sep 2007 07:36:58 +0200:

> I too miss the total count, unread/total.  I'm not sure why Charles ended 
> up doing it that way.
> 
> However, since sometime after 0.120 I believe (can't be bothered to look 
> up exactly when), it's now possible to select multiple groups.  You 
> should therefore be able to select multiple groups and get overviews 
> (technically incorrectly but more popularly and in pan headers) for all 
> of them.  As long as you either get all overviews, or get overviews for N 
> days, that should then give you a decent comparison, assuming large 
> segments of them haven't been previously marked read, either from 
> previous visits or due to reading groups from which they've been cross-
> posted.  If necessary, you can toggle off the view unread only filter, 
> select all, and mark unread, so everything shows up as unread once again 
> (assuming your expiry settings haven't deleted a bunch of them).  Of 
> course, the marking unread would have to be done a group at a time.  
> Since pan DOES show unread post numbers, once you have them all marked 
> unread, you have a count of what's in the group.

Thank you for your extensive answer :). If I understand you correctly I
select multiple groups in the group pane (with shift) and do a get N (1
day ) headers? It would be a nice workaround, only it will take
considerable more time (hours) then the old 'get header count option' :(