From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/32980 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Christensen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: opposite of `T ^' (kind of)? Date: 25 Oct 2000 20:51:15 -0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <877l6w5ssc.fsf@scratchy.dhis.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035169170 22756 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:59:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:59:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 435F0D049A for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 20:53:21 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAB01544; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 19:52:07 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 25 Oct 2000 19:51:32 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA06761 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 19:51:20 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from pony.its.uwo.ca (pony.its.uwo.ca [129.100.2.63]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42BA4D049A for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 20:51:41 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from scratchy (jdc.math.uwo.ca [129.100.75.19]) by pony.its.uwo.ca (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e9Q0pNh04870; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 20:51:23 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from jdc by scratchy with local (Exim 3.16 #1 (Debian)) id 13obGF-0003XJ-00; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 20:51:15 -0400 Original-To: Kai.Grossjohann@cs.uni-dortmund.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) In-Reply-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "25 Oct 2000 23:25:28 +0200" Original-Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:32980 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:32980 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) 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