From 2f4f46a730b0253d2fee69d018037e24e7b12a11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: yamaoka <yamaoka>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 22:42:15 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Synch with Oort Gnus.

---
 lisp/ChangeLog   |    7 +++++++
 lisp/gnus-sum.el |   39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
 lisp/gnus.el     |   17 +++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index c84029c..0948d48 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2002-02-27  ShengHuo ZHU  <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>
+
+	* gnus.el (large-newsgroup-initial): New parameter.
+
+	* gnus-sum.el (gnus-articles-to-read): Use large-newsgroup-initial.
+	(gnus-summary-insert-old-articles): Ditto.
+
 2002-02-26  ShengHuo ZHU  <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>
 
 	* gnus-sum.el (gnus-articles-to-read): `gnus-large-newsgroup' is
diff --git a/lisp/gnus-sum.el b/lisp/gnus-sum.el
index 9ebc676..0c8ba57 100644
--- a/lisp/gnus-sum.el
+++ b/lisp/gnus-sum.el
@@ -4981,22 +4981,24 @@ If SELECT-ARTICLES, only select those articles from GROUP."
 	    (condition-case ()
 		(cond
 		 ((and (or (<= scored marked) (= scored number))
-		       (natnump gnus-large-newsgroup)
+		       (numberp gnus-large-newsgroup)
 		       (> number gnus-large-newsgroup))
 		  (let* ((cursor-in-echo-area nil)
+			 (initial (gnus-parameter-large-newsgroup-initial
+				   gnus-newsgroup-name))
 			 (input
-			  (read-from-minibuffer
+			  (read-string
 			   (format
-			    "How many articles from %s (max %d): "
+			    "How many articles from %s (%s %d): "
 			    (gnus-limit-string
 			     (gnus-group-decoded-name gnus-newsgroup-name)
 			     35)
+			    (if initial "max" "default")
 			    number)
-			   (cons (number-to-string gnus-large-newsgroup)
-				 0))))
-		    (if (string-match "^[ \t]*$" input)
-			number
-		      input)))
+			   (if initial
+			       (cons (number-to-string initial)
+				     0)))))
+		    (if (string-match "^[ \t]*$" input) number input)))
 		 ((and (> scored marked) (< scored number)
 		       (> (- scored number) 20))
 		  (let ((input
@@ -11253,13 +11255,20 @@ If ALL is a number, fetch this number of articles."
 	 (t
 	  (if (and (numberp gnus-large-newsgroup)
 		   (> len gnus-large-newsgroup))
-	      (let ((input
-		     (read-string
-		      (format
-		       "How many articles from %s (default %d): "
-		       (gnus-limit-string
-			(gnus-group-decoded-name gnus-newsgroup-name) 35)
-		       len))))
+	      (let* ((cursor-in-echo-area nil)
+		     (initial (gnus-parameter-large-newsgroup-initial 
+			       gnus-newsgroup-name))
+		     (input
+		      (read-string
+		       (format
+			"How many articles from %s (%s %d): "
+			(gnus-limit-string
+			 (gnus-group-decoded-name gnus-newsgroup-name) 35)
+			(if initial "max" "default")
+			len)
+		       (if initial
+			   (cons (number-to-string initial)
+				 0)))))
 		(unless (string-match "^[ \t]*$" input)
 		  (setq all (string-to-number input))
 		  (if (< all len)
diff --git a/lisp/gnus.el b/lisp/gnus.el
index ce85a84..8a91533 100644
--- a/lisp/gnus.el
+++ b/lisp/gnus.el
@@ -1679,6 +1679,23 @@ posting an article."
  :parameter-document
  "Posting method for this group.")
 
+(gnus-define-group-parameter
+ large-newsgroup-initial
+ :type integer
+ :function-document
+ "Return GROUP's initial input of the number of articles."
+ :variable-document
+ "*Alist of group regexps and its initial input of the number of articles."
+ :parameter-type '(choice :tag "Initial Input for Large Newsgroup"
+			  (const :tag "All" nil)
+			  (integer))
+ :parameter-document "\
+
+This number will be prompted as the initial value of the number of
+articles to list when the group is a large newsgroup (see
+`gnus-large-newsgroup').  If it is `nil', the default value is the
+total number of articles in the group.")
+
 (defcustom gnus-group-uncollapsed-levels 1
   "Number of group name elements to leave alone when making a short group name."
   :group 'gnus-group-visual
-- 
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