From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/56575 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: : gnus-summary-refer-parent-article, what does it deserve ? Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 09:37:40 +0100 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <87llmfy9ij.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> References: <878yihaa25.fsf@virgil.koldfront.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1078475893 27831 80.91.224.253 (5 Mar 2004 08:38:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 08:38:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M5115@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Mar 05 09:38:09 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AzAqP-00022c-00 for ; Fri, 05 Mar 2004 09:38:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AzApp-0008NC-00; Fri, 05 Mar 2004 02:37:33 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AzApg-0008N4-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 05 Mar 2004 02:37:24 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (quimby.gnus.org [80.91.224.244]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DDAA3A0055 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 02:37:23 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AzApe-0003y7-00 for ; Fri, 05 Mar 2004 09:37:22 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213-203-244-156.kunde.vdserver.de Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1078475842 14817 213.203.244.156 (5 Mar 2004 08:37:22 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 08:37:22 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:QYkp9olzHYpCKCWF+roHgP/6Zek= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:56575 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:56575 spamtrap@koldfront.dk (Adam Sj=F8gren) writes: > On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 09:08:53 +0100, Xavier wrote: > >> So can somebody explain me when does he use this feature ? > > I use it when I read a new article in a thread I've previously read > (the day before, or something), and I can't remember what someone said > earlier in the thread. ^ a couple of times, and there you go. People who set gnus-fetch-old-headers to t will use ^ less often. But some people might prefer to actually see new articles only, so they set gnus-fetch-old-headers to nil. Then they can use ^ to get the parent of an article. Of course, the feature that ^ can fetch from sources other than the current newsserver is really cool and makes ^ much more useful. Kai