gnus.el (gnus-mode-non-string-length): Change default to 30; gnus-sum.el (gnus-auto...

diff --git a/lisp/gnus/ChangeLog b/lisp/gnus/ChangeLog
index 8e480506175bebce586af917d43e9b3334d53edf..53fb4bfc4ce8665c822ec5754dfc49f7c5759876 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/gnus/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/gnus/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,19 @@
 2010-09-02  Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen  <larsi@gnus.org>
 
+       * gnus.el (gnus-refer-article-method): Change default to 'current.
+       When referring an article, the common behaviour is to refer it from the
+       current select method, not the native select method.  The chances of
+       the native select method having the message in question is rather slim
+       these days.
+
+       * gnus-sum.el (gnus-auto-select-subject): Change default to
+       `unseen-or-unread'.  I think it's likely that most people want to
+       select an unseen article over a previously seen, but unread one.
+
+       * gnus.el (gnus-mode-non-string-length): Change default to 30.  nil
+       means that in the article buffer none of the minor mode elements will
+       be shown, usually, and this is not desirable in most cases.
+
        * gnus-sum.el (gnus-summary-goto-unread): Change default to nil, so
        that commands like `d' (and the like) go to the next line in the
        buffer, instead of the next unread article.  I think this is the

diff --git a/lisp/gnus/gnus-sum.el b/lisp/gnus/gnus-sum.el
index bbff28bf7beebffa3523b6db302bb30434e9aa06..f1ea15dff9b463b945810df738c499e0954909ef 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/gnus/gnus-sum.el
+++ b/lisp/gnus/gnus-sum.el
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ newsgroups, set the variable to nil in `gnus-select-group-hook'."
   :type '(choice (const :tag "none" nil)
                 (sexp :menu-tag "first" t)))
 
-(defcustom gnus-auto-select-subject 'unread
+(defcustom gnus-auto-select-subject 'unseen-or-unread
   "*Says what subject to place under point when entering a group.
 
 This variable can either be the symbols `first' (place point on the
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ the first unseen article), `unseen-or-unread' (place point on the subject
 line of the first unseen article or, if all article have been seen, on the
 subject line of the first unread article), or a function to be called to
 place point on some subject line."
-  :version "22.1"
+  :version "24.1"
   :group 'gnus-group-select
   :type '(choice (const best)
                 (const unread)

diff --git a/lisp/gnus/gnus.el b/lisp/gnus/gnus.el
index 79a5b649078570c42613563c90e0f214ef82a5cf..797f8a44bd15cdb33b270675882d0f2d61338622 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/gnus/gnus.el
+++ b/lisp/gnus/gnus.el
@@ -1443,7 +1443,7 @@ Obsolete variable; use `message-user-organization' instead.")
 
 ;; Customization variables
 
-(defcustom gnus-refer-article-method nil
+(defcustom gnus-refer-article-method 'current
   "Preferred method for fetching an article by Message-ID.
 If you are reading news from the local spool (with nnspool), fetching
 articles by Message-ID is painfully slow.  By setting this method to an
@@ -1455,6 +1455,7 @@ in the documentation of `gnus-select-method'.
 It can also be a list of select methods, as well as the special symbol
 `current', which means to use the current select method.  If it is a
 list, Gnus will try all the methods in the list until it finds a match."
+  :version "24.1"
   :group 'gnus-server
   :type '(choice (const :tag "default" nil)
                 (const current)
@@ -1804,12 +1805,11 @@ If this variable is nil, screen refresh may be quicker."
              (const summary)
              (const tree)))
 
-;; Added by Keinonen Kari <kk85613@cs.tut.fi>.
-(defcustom gnus-mode-non-string-length nil
+(defcustom gnus-mode-non-string-length 30
   "*Max length of mode-line non-string contents.
 If this is nil, Gnus will take space as is needed, leaving the rest
-of the mode line intact.  Note that the default of nil is unlikely
-to be desirable; see the manual for further details."
+of the mode line intact."
+  :version "24.1"
   :group 'gnus-various
   :type '(choice (const nil)
                 integer))