Gnus programming question

Gnus programming question

[Kai Grossjohann]

Hi,

suppose I had a group name and a number of article numbers.  How would
I go about creating a summary buffer with exactly those articles?

(I've got a glimpse index of my ~/Mail directory and this would give
me a way to browse the result of a glimpse search.)

More difficult question: How would I go about creating a summary
buffer with those articles as mentioned above, plus all other articles
in threads?  Ie given an article number I'd like to find out the root
of the thread it belongs to (I don't know how to do that) plus all
children of that root (seems to be easy using the
gnus-summary-article-children function).

All for nnml.

kai
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Re: Gnus programming question

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@ls6.cs.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

> suppose I had a group name and a number of article numbers.  How would
> I go about creating a summary buffer with exactly those articles?

There's no function that does this in Gnus.  What articles are
selected is decided rather far down in the code.  I could add an entry
point that would allow you to do this, though.  Uhm, yes, I'll add
that to the todo list.

You should go ahead and have a look at `gnus-select-newsgroup'
and friends in gnus-sum.el if you want to do this straight away,
though. 

> More difficult question: How would I go about creating a summary
> buffer with those articles as mentioned above, plus all other articles
> in threads?

This would be more difficult.  Or perhaps not.  You could just switch
on fetching of old headers to build threads.

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