Re: How to display read articles?

[lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de>]

prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com> writes:

> lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> writes:
>
>>> Type "/ O" in the Summary buffer and type however many old (aka read)
>>> articles you wish to see.
>>
>> Or you can use C-u RET to enter the group to see all articles right
>> away.
>>
> but is there a way to get all the articles for a particular thread?
>
> A R seems to do it for email.
> A ^ gets the parent
> A T does this for some of the thread though not always all of it.
>
> so if i want to see the articles in an old thread, how can i get it back
> (other than try to find it in a gmane repository?)

Are you sure the articles are available?  How do you know that they are
when they aren't found?  When you're looking at a newsgroup on a news
server, they might not be available.

"A T" usually works fine for me, though I have seen a few articles that
seemed to refer to others of which no parent was found (particularly in
this mailing list, IIRC).

"A T" is bound to `gnus-summary-refer-thread':

,---- [ gnus-sum.el ]
| (defun gnus-summary-refer-thread (&optional limit)
|   "Fetch all articles in the current thread.
| If no backend-specific 'request-thread function is available
| fetch LIMIT (the numerical prefix) old headers. If LIMIT is nil
| fetch what's specified by the `gnus-refer-thread-limit'
| variable."
`----

The default for `gnus-refer-thread-limit' seems to be 500.

Getting the parent might give a message that there are no references or
that the parent couldn't be found.  There has been a discussion about
improving this recently here.  It seemed to mostly concern articles on
IMAP servers.

So it seems to depend on what backend you're using.  When you can find
the thread on gmane, you could try to fetch some articles that couldn't
be found with "A T" by their message ID with
`gnus-summary-refer-article'.  I just tried that with an article in
another group, and the article is inserted into the summary of the group
for mails from this mailing list.

It would be interesting if you get the missing article with
`gnus-summary-refer-article' but not with "A T".