Re: How to open a summary buffer reliable?

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

Hi Reiner,

> I'm not sure if that there is a 100% reliable way (e.g. for empty
> groups I'm not aware of any possibility).

There cannot be a (working) link to a message in an empty group, so
that's no issue here.

> Are you sure that you really need to enter the group?  Maybe it
> someone can come up with an idea if you describe what you want to
> achieve in org-mode finally.  (I don't use org-mode myself (yet), so
> my questions might be silly.)

I have a group name (i.e. "nnimap+Foo:bar.baz") and a message-id.  Now I
want to open a summary buffer which contains the article with that
message-id, and the article should be displayed in an article buffer.

The message-id is optional.  If none is given only the group's summary
should be shown.  In that case the "how many articles" question is ok,
of course.

> Maybe also gnus-group-quick-select-group and

Nice (because it's quick), but it has the same problem as the "slow"
version.

> gnus-group-select-group-ephemerally are useful.

No, that one's not good.  The user should be able to modify the linked
article.  (Maybe someone makes "delete that message on christmas"
links.)

Bye,
Tassilo