From: Dan Christensen <jdc@julian.uwo.ca>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: opposite of `T ^' (kind of)?
Date: 25 Oct 2000 20:51:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877l6w5ssc.fsf@scratchy.dhis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "25 Oct 2000 23:25:28 +0200"
Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> With `T ^' I can mark the parent using `#' then type `T ^' on the
> child. But the normal use case of this functionality is that I
> receive a message without References header and want to find out the
> parent, then rethread that message. So it would be more convenient if
> I could process-mark the child-to-be, then find the parent, then hit
> `T v' (say, because `v' looks like the opposite of `^').
This would be useful because it makes sense to make several articles
the child of one parent, but not several articles the parent of one
child.
I suggested a long time ago that the T ^ function be changed to do
this, but Lars didn't seem to want to make a change in the user
interface. Maybe a variable or an alternate function would be in
order?
Dan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-10-26 0:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-10-25 21:25 Kai Großjohann
2000-10-26 0:51 ` Dan Christensen [this message]
2000-10-26 9:03 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-10-27 7:45 ` Stephen Zander
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