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From: ben@ulrich.mth.msu.edu (Ben Lotto)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus
Subject: Re: gnus-large-newsgroup
Message-ID: <BEN.89Mar11110023@ulrich.mth.msu.edu>
Date: 11 Mar 89 16:00:23 GMT
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In-reply-to: umerin@photon.stars.flab.fujitsu.junet's message of 7 Mar 89 14:03:00 GMT


Here is the problem:

>   problem.  I use (setq gnus-auto-select-next 'quietly), so when I type
>   "n" to the last message in a group, it goes on immediately to the next
>   group.  If the new group has a large number of messages, it will then
>   type the question "How many articles", but the name of the newsgroup
>   is nowhere on the screen.  This makes it hard to decide whether to
>   accept the default or choose a smaller number.

Here is my fix (context sensitive diff) which can be applied with patch: 

----------(cut here and before .signature)------------------------------
*** gnus.el	Sat Mar 11 10:49:26 1989
--- gnus.el.~1~	Fri Feb 24 09:52:03 1989
***************
*** 4046,4053 ****
  		      (let ((input
  			     (read-string
  			      (format
! 			       "How many articles from %s (default %d): "
! 			       gnus-newsgroup-name number))))
  			(setq selected
  			      (if (string-equal input "")
  				  number (string-to-int input))))
--- 4046,4052 ----
  		      (let ((input
  			     (read-string
  			      (format
! 			       "How many articles (default %d): " number))))
  			(setq selected
  			      (if (string-equal input "")
  				  number (string-to-int input))))
----------(cut here)----------------------------------------------------
--

-B. A. Lotto  (ben@ulrich.mth.msu.edu)
Department of Mathematics/Michigan State University/East Lansing, MI  48824