From: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
To: Leonidas Tsampros <ltsampros@upnet.gr>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: What is a "virtual" group?
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 06:50:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2d2tipvn1.fsf@boostpro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ppxndko1.fsf@kepler.lan> (Leonidas Tsampros's message of "Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:38:54 +0300")
on Mon Apr 22 2013, Leonidas Tsampros <ltsampros-AT-upnet.gr> wrote:
> Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:
>> on Thu Jan 31 2013, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga-AT-ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:
>>>
>>>>> I am trying to figure out how to contribute a really cool (and for me,
>
>>>>> essential) piece of functionality to Gnus: the ability to, given a
>>>>> message-id, find and display the message in the context of the entire
>>>>> thread in which that message participates, even across groups. Of
>>>>> course I'm presuming you think that's worth having in Gnus, but I could
>>>>> be wrong. If so, just tell me and I'll stop pestering you.
>>>
>>> Dave,
>>>
>>> I cannot help with this but did want to add my vote: I would love to
>>> have this feature in gnus.
>>
>> You could help by lobbying Lars to respond to my questions of Dec 25th
>> in this thread :-)
>
> Are you referring only to a specific backend? I guess this will have to work
> differently if we have to cross backends.
No, it works across backends. It doesn't even take all that much code.
--
Dave Abrahams
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-25 13:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-15 23:53 Dave Abrahams
2012-09-16 10:57 ` Steinar Bang
2012-09-16 15:08 ` Dave Abrahams
2012-09-16 15:15 ` Adam Sjøgren
2012-09-16 16:52 ` Steinar Bang
2012-12-25 12:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-12-25 20:23 ` Dave Abrahams
2012-12-25 20:31 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-12-25 20:51 ` Dave Abrahams
2012-12-25 20:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-12-25 21:32 ` Dave Abrahams
2012-12-25 21:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2013-01-31 18:10 ` Dave Abrahams
2013-01-31 18:18 ` Dave Abrahams
2013-01-31 23:18 ` Eric S Fraga
2013-02-20 5:06 ` Dave Abrahams
2013-04-22 8:38 ` Leonidas Tsampros
2013-04-25 13:50 ` Dave Abrahams [this message]
2013-04-25 17:48 ` Leonidas Tsampros
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