[Q]: gnus-summary-refer-parent-article, what does it deserve ?

[Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org>]

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Hi,

Today I incidentally discovered a gnus feature.

When in a summary buffer, hit '^' and you can (provided it is possible)
read the ancestor(s) of an article.

I admit it could be useful but my problem is I don't even know when
people use it exactly (if ever used).

The docstring says:

,----
| ^ runs the command gnus-summary-refer-parent-article
|    which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `gnus-sum'.
| It is bound to ^, A r, A ^, <menu-bar> <article> <fetch parent of article>.
| (gnus-summary-refer-parent-article N)
| 
| Refer parent article N times.
| If N is negative, go to ancestor -N instead.
| The difference between N and the number of articles fetched is returned.
`----

I thought I could use this when threads where broken but most of the
time, when a thread is broken by a post, it is highly likely it doesn't
have a references header and so '^' is not that useful (not to say
useless)in that case.

So can somebody explain me when does he use this feature ?

Thank you,

zeDek
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