gnus-summary buffer limiting: missing necessary inverse actions

[Daniel Ortmann]

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In GNU Emacs 21.1.1 (i386--freebsd, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2001-11-09 on pyrl.eye
configured using `configure  --prefix=/usr/local i386--freebsd'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

The gnus-summary buffer has the following bindings for limiting
articles:

/ C             gnus-summary-limit-mark-excluded-as-read
/ c             gnus-summary-limit-exclude-childless-dormant
/ E             gnus-summary-limit-include-expunged
/ x             gnus-summary-limit-to-extra
/ t             gnus-summary-limit-to-age
/ d             gnus-summary-limit-exclude-dormant
/ T             gnus-summary-limit-include-thread
/ D             gnus-summary-limit-include-dormant
/ *             gnus-summary-limit-include-cached
/ v             gnus-summary-limit-to-score
/ M             gnus-summary-limit-exclude-marks
/ m             gnus-summary-limit-to-marks
/ u             gnus-summary-limit-to-unread
/ a             gnus-summary-limit-to-author
/ s             gnus-summary-limit-to-subject
/ w             gnus-summary-pop-limit
/ n             gnus-summary-limit-to-articles
/ /             gnus-summary-limit-to-subject

Each of the above items, such as gnus-summary-limit-to-subject, should
include an inverse.  That is, there should be a way to both include AND
exclude particular subjects, dates, etc.  Another example, .*-to-author
should have an inverse which excludes a particular author rather than
only including.


Recent input:
T h e SPC C-n RET C-u SPC T h e SPC t i m e SPC t i 
DEL DEL i t SPC t a k e s SPC t o SPC s o r t SPC t 
h e SPC b u f f e r SPC i s SPC u n e x p e c t e d 
l y SPC l o n g . C-l C-a C-l C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p 
C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-l C-c C-c C-x h M-w M-x r 
e p o r t TAB RET

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