From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: How to display dormant articles in a summary buffer?
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2024 17:20:28 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y1c9kk9v.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r0i1cdjc.fsf@dod.no>
Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:
>>>>>> Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>:
>
>> Steinar Bang wrote:
>>> Today I wanted to find this one, which I knew was residing
>>> as a dormant article (and thread) [...]
>
>> What is a dormant article?
>
> If you use '?' in the summary buffer the article will be hidden next
> time you open the summary buffer... unless there has been a reply to the
> article, in which case the dormant article(s) will become visibile.
>
> So if you have a thread of dormant articles and there is a reply to the
> latest article, the entire thread will become visible when you enter the
> Summary buffer.
That seems like the exact behavior you get with plain old read articles,
though, doesn't it? (I also have never really known what "dormant" meant.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-01-29 1:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-01-25 22:49 Steinar Bang
2024-01-26 0:23 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2024-01-26 6:58 ` Steinar Bang
2024-01-26 15:29 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2024-01-28 11:43 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-01-28 22:13 ` Steinar Bang
2024-01-29 1:20 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2024-01-29 11:24 ` Steinar Bang
2024-01-29 11:28 ` Steinar Bang
2024-01-29 15:49 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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