Re: How to display dormant articles in a summary buffer?

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:

> Today I wanted to find this one, which I knew was residing as a dormant
> article (and thread) in the summary buffer of nntp+news.gmane.io:gmane.emacs.help:
>  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2021-06/msg00854.html
>
> And the only way I found how to do it was to open the nntp+news.gmane.io:gmane.emacs.help
> group with 'C-u 15000 RET', and that is... a bit cumbersome.
>
> A google search found
>  https://www.math.utah.edu/docs/info/gnus_5.html#SEC66
> and gnus-summary-show-all-dormant, which sounded very much like what I
> wanted.
>
> But that command wasn't in my gnus and not in the .el files of that gnus
> either (emacs 28 gnus).
>
> So the commands have been removed? Why? Was nobody using them?
> (the reason I'm asking is that I would have liked to use them now and
> would in the future have used them instead of the C-u <number> trick. I
> have lots of gmane groups with old dormant threads)

Does `gnus-summary-insert-dormant-articles' ("Y d") find the article
correctly? I'm not sure if it has to be present in the newsgroup first...