From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/68231 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sven Joachim Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: How to only fetch old articles of a specified thread. Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:17:30 +0100 Message-ID: <87r62kirph.fsf@turtle.gmx.de> References: <87d4e5t89p.fsf@vip.qq.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1233339534 9714 80.91.229.12 (30 Jan 2009 18:18:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:18:54 +0000 (UTC) To: Peter Wang , ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M16672@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Jan 30 19:20:08 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LSxyK-0005oH-62 for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:20:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LSxwM-0001Sx-7z; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:18:06 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LSxwK-0001Sf-NB for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:18:04 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LSxwI-0003BN-1q for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:18:04 -0600 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]) by quimby.gnus.org with smtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1LSxwa-0000MN-00 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:18:20 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 30 Jan 2009 18:17:30 -0000 Original-Received: from p54867870.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO turtle.gmx.de) [84.134.120.112] by mail.gmx.net (mp002) with SMTP; 30 Jan 2009 19:17:30 +0100 X-Authenticated: #28250155 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18/x5ko4fw/Vydl3HADAONBuv4nb/YhUEXvoJmCbT gmU+ZkUsGUxXFq Original-Received: by turtle.gmx.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6B6E5354B0; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:17:31 +0100 (CET) Mail-Followup-To: Peter Wang , ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <87d4e5t89p.fsf@vip.qq.com> (Peter Wang's message of "Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:09:38 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.68 X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:68231 Archived-At: On 2009-01-30 11:09 +0100, Peter Wang wrote: > `/ o' in the summary buffer will insert old articles. > > I wonder how to insert only old articles of a specified thread instead > of all old articles. so tracking threads acrossing a very long timeframe > may become more convenient. thanks. This is done with `A T': ,---- | A T runs the command gnus-summary-refer-thread, which is an | interactive compiled Lisp function in `gnus-sum.el'. | | It is bound to A T, ,
. | | (gnus-summary-refer-thread &optional limit) | | Fetch all articles in the current thread. | If limit (the numerical prefix), fetch that many old headers instead | of what's specified by the `gnus-refer-thread-limit' variable. `---- Somehow this does not seem to work very well on news.gmane.org, however. :-( Sven