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1 ;;; gnus-edit.el --- Gnus SCORE file editing
2 ;; Copyright (C) 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 ;;
4 ;; Author: Per Abrahamsen <abraham@iesd.auc.dk>
5 ;; Keywords: news, help
6 ;; Version: 0.2
8 ;;; Commentary:
9 ;;
10 ;; Type `M-x gnus-score-customize RET' to invoke.
12 ;;; Code:
21 SCORE files allow you to assign a score to each article when you enter
22 a group, and automatically mark the articles as read or delete them
23 based on the score. In the summary buffer you can use the score to
24 sort the articles by score (`C-c C-s C-s') or to jump to the unread
31 Enter the name in the `File' field, then push the [Load] button to
32 load it. When done editing, push the [Save] button to save the file.
34 Several score files may apply to each group, and several groups may
35 use the same score file. This is controlled implicitly by the name of
36 the score file and the value of the global variable
37 `gnus-score-find-score-files-function', and explicitly by the the
55 List of score files to load when the the current score file is loaded.
56 You can use this to share score entries between multiple score files.
58 Push the `[INS]' button add a score file to the list, or `[DEL]' to
68 List of score files to exclude when the the current score file is loaded.
69 You can use this if you have a score file you want to share between a
70 number of newsgroups, except for the newsgroup this score file
71 matches. [ Did anyone get that? ]
73 Push the `[INS]' button add a score file to the list, or `[DEL]' to
83 Articles below this score will be automatically marked as read.
85 This means that when you enter the summary buffer, the articles will
86 be shown but will already be marked as read. You can then press `x'
87 to get rid of them entirely.
89 By default articles with a negative score will be marked as read. To
90 change this, push the `Mark' button, and choose `Integer'. You can
101 Articles below this score will be marked as read, but not shown.
103 Someone should explain me the difference between this and `expunge'
118 Each news header has an associated list of score entries.
119 You can use the [INS] buttons to add new score entries anywhere in the
120 list, or the [DEL] buttons to delete specific score entries.
122 Each score entry should specify a string that should be matched with
123 the content actual header in order to determine whether the entry
124 applies to that header. Enter that string in the `Match' field.
126 If the score entry matches, the articles score will be adjusted with
127 some amount. Enter that amount in the in the `Score' field. You
128 should specify a positive amount for score entries that matches
129 articles you find interesting, and a negative amount for score entries
130 matching articles you would rather avoid. The final score for the
131 article will be the sum of the score of all score entries that match
132 the article.
134 The score entry can be either permanent or expirable. To make the
135 entry permanent, push the `Date' button and choose the `Permanent'
136 entry. To make the entry expirable, choose instead the `Integer'
137 entry. After choosing the you can enter the date the score entry was
138 last matched in the `Date' field. The date will be automatically
139 updated each time the score entry matches an article. When the date
140 become too old, the the score entry will be removed.
142 For your convenience, the date is specified as the number of days
143 elapsed since the (imaginary) Gregorian date Sunday, December 31, 1
144 BC.
146 Finally, you can choose what kind of match you want to perform by
147 pushing the `Type' button. For most entries you can choose between
148 `Exact' which mean the header content must be exactly identical to the
149 match string, or `Substring' meaning the match string should be
150 somewhere in the header content, or even `Regexp' to use Emacs regular
151 expression matching. The last choice is `Fuzzy' which is like `Exact'
152 except that whitespace derivations, a beginning `Re:' or a terminating
153 parenthetical remark are all ignored. Each of the four types have a
154 variant which will ignore case in the comparison. That variant is
168 If you want to see all followups to your own articles, add an entry
169 with a positive score matching your email address here. You can also
170 put an entry with a negative score matching someone who is so annoying
177 If you want to score based on which newsgroups an article is posted
178 to, this is the header to use. The syntax is a little different from
179 the `Newsgroups' header, but scoring in `Xref' is much faster. As an
180 example, to match all crossposted articles match on `:.*:' using the
187 The `References' header gives you an alternative way to score on
188 followups. If you for example want to see follow all discussions
189 where people from `iesd.auc.dk' school participate, you can add a
196 This isn't very useful, but Lars like completeness. You can use it to
197 match all messaged generated by recent Gnus version with a `Substring'
202 WARNING: Scoring on the following three pseudo headers is very slow!
203 Scoring on any of the real headers use a technique that avoids
204 scanning the entire article, only the actual headers you score on are
205 scanned, and this scanning has been heavily optimized. Using just a
206 single entry for one the three pseudo-headers `Head', `Body', and
207 `All' will require GNUS to retrieve and scan the entire article, which
208 can be very slow on large groups. However, if you add one entry for
209 any of these headers, you can just as well add several. Each
215 Instead of matching the content of a single header, the entire header
216 section of the article is matched. You can use this to match on
217 arbitrary headers, foe example to single out TIN lusers, use a substring
224 If you think any article that mentions `Kibo' is inherently
235 You can change the score of articles that have been posted before,
236 after, or at a specific date. You should add the date in the `Match'
237 field, and then select `before', `after', or `at' by pushing the
238 `Type' button. Imagine you want to lower the score of very old
239 articles, or want to raise the score of articles from the future (such
240 things happen!). Then you can't use date scoring for that. In fact,
241 I can't imagine anything you would want to use this for.
247 The Lines and Chars headers use integer based scoring.
249 This means that you should write an integer in the `Match' field, and
250 the push the `Type' field to if the `Chars' or `Lines' header should
251 be larger, equal, or smaller than the number you wrote in the match
269 When you have finished reading a group GNUS can automatically create
270 new score entries based on which articles you read and which you
271 skipped. This is normally controlled by the two global variables
272 `gnus-use-adaptive-scoring' and `gnus-default-adaptive-score-alist',
273 The first determines whether adaptive scoring should be enabled or
274 not, while the second determines what score entries should be created.
276 You can overwrite the setting of `gnus-use-adaptive-scoring' by
277 selecting `Enable' or `Disable' by pressing the `Adapt' button.
278 Selecting `Custom' will allow you to specify the exact adaptation
293 Each time you read an article it will be marked as read. Likewise, if
294 you delete it it will be marked as deleted, and if you tick it it will
295 be marked as ticked. When you leave a group, GNUS can automatically
296 create score file entries based on these marks, so next time you enter
297 the group articles with subjects that you read last time have higher
298 score and articles with subjects that deleted will have lower score.
300 Below is a list of such marks. You can insert new marks to the list
301 by pushing on one of the `[INS]' buttons in the left margin to create
302 a new entry and then pushing the `Mark' button to select the mark.
303 For each mark there is another list, this time of article headers,
304 which determine how the mark should affect that header. The `[INS]'
305 buttons of this list are indented to indicate that the belong to the
306 mark above. Push the `Header' button to choose a header, and then
307 enter a score value in the `Score' field.
309 For each article that are marked with `Mark' when you leave the
310 group, a temporary score entry for the articles `Header' with the
311 value of `Score' will be added the adapt file. If the score entry
312 already exists, `Score' will be added to its value. If you understood
313 that, you are smart.
315 You can select the special value `Other' when pressing the `Mark' or
316 `Header' buttons. This is because Lars might add more useful values
388 List of local variables to set when this score file is loaded.
390 Using this entry can provide a convenient way to set variables that
391 will affect the summary mode for only some specific groups, i.e. those
530 "Create a buffer for editing gnus SCORE files."
534 gnus-score-custom-type-properties
535 'gnus-score-custom-set
536 'gnus-score-custom-get
546 gnus-score-custom-file
564 gnus-score-alist)
565 gnus-score-alist))))
573 gnus-score-alist)))
615 emacs-lisp-mode-hook)
628 ;;; gnus-edit.el end here