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[Lloyd Zusman]

I'm using pgnus-0.97.

I know how to use `S O m' to put a group of marked articles into a
digest that I could then mail to someone.  I'm wondering if there's
also already some sort of Gnus command that will do this and also
properly quote the text in the article in the form of a reply, and for
the result not to contain the digest summary text that goes at the top
and bottom of the digested group of messages.

I know how to use elisp to create a new function which will do this.
However, before I reinvent the wheel, I just want to make sure that
there isn't already a single function or command within Gnus which
does close to what I'm describing here.  I couldn't find such a thing
in the docs or by grepping through the elisp, but perhaps I missed
something ... ???

If there's not such a thing, is there anyone out there besides me
who might want this?  If so, I could then supply whatever I write
to this forum.

Thanks in advance for your feedback.

-- 
 Lloyd Zusman
 ljz@asfast.com

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[Neil Crellin]

Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:
> I know how to use `S O m' to put a group of marked articles into a
> digest that I could then mail to someone.  I'm wondering if there's
> also already some sort of Gnus command that will do this and also
> properly quote the text in the article in the form of a reply, and for
> the result not to contain the digest summary text that goes at the top
> and bottom of the digested group of messages.
>
> I know how to use elisp to create a new function which will do this.
> However, before I reinvent the wheel, I just want to make sure that
> there isn't already a single function or command within Gnus which
> does close to what I'm describing here.  I couldn't find such a thing
> in the docs or by grepping through the elisp, but perhaps I missed
> something ... ???

Doesn't process marking the set of messages and using F or R do what
you want?

-- 
Neil Crellin <neilc@wallaby.cc>

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[Lloyd Zusman]

Neil Crellin <neilc@wallaby.cc> writes:

> Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:
> > I know how to use `S O m' to put a group of marked articles into a
> > digest that I could then mail to someone.  I'm wondering if there's
> > also already some sort of Gnus command that will do this and also
> > properly quote the text in the article in the form of a reply, and for
> > the result not to contain the digest summary text that goes at the top
> > and bottom of the digested group of messages.
> >
> > [ ... ]
> 
> Doesn't process marking the set of messages and using F or R do what
> you want?

By golly it does!  I had remapped 'R' and 'F' to my own idiosyncratic
wrappers around `gnus-summary-reply-with-original' and
`gnus-summary-followup-with-original' and the way I did it had the
inadvertent side effect of blocking their capabilities to operate on a
group of marked articles.

Problem solved!

Thank you very much.

-- 
 Lloyd Zusman
 ljz@asfast.com