Re: Can't mark negative article numbers

[matthias@my.gnus.org (Matthias Wiehl)]

"Robin S. Socha" <robin-dated-1005003013.83ef58@socha.net> writes:
> Okay, so I say ^ in the summary buffer and then !. No workie. Why?

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| Karl Kleinpaste <karl@charcoal.com> writes:
| 
| Yes.  This is a fairly fundamental issue.  You see, when you chase to
| a parent article, it may or may not have come from within the same
| group as the group you're currently reading.  If you're reading
| gnu.emacs.gnus and chase to an article's parent, you may be reading an
| article posted (only) to news.software.readers.  What if you don't
| read n.s.r?  What does it mean to mark an article to which you don't
| even have access in the normal case?
| 
| Generally, if Gnus can figure out where in the current group a
| chased-to article belongs, it will not number it negatively, but will
| show it with its normal within-the-group numbering.  It is only
| articles from outside the current group that get such treatment.
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| Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
| 
| When you hit `^', Gnus looks to see if it has downloaded the header
| for this message already.  If so, it uses the article number found
| there.  But if not, then Gnus fetches the right article by message-id,
| but it does not look to find the right article number for this
| message-id.  Note that the article might come from a different group,
| so it's not possible to always assign a good number.
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