From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/56547 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xavier Maillard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [Q]: gnus-summary-refer-parent-article, what does it deserve ? Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 23:42:21 +0100 Organization: GNU Rox ! Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1078415994 21721 80.91.224.253 (4 Mar 2004 15:59:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 15:59:54 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M5088@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Mar 04 16:59:46 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AyvGE-0000He-00 for ; Thu, 04 Mar 2004 16:59:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AyvG2-0004ug-00; Thu, 04 Mar 2004 09:59:34 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AyfCg-0002KF-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 03 Mar 2004 16:51:03 -0600 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AA083A0054 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 16:50:58 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AyfCb-0004fj-00 for ; Wed, 03 Mar 2004 23:50:57 +0100 Original-Received: from rms.gnu-rox.org ([213.41.134.247]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed Mar 3 22:50:57 2004 Original-Received: from zedek+news by rms.gnu-rox.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed Mar 3 22:50:57 2004 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 44 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: rms.gnu-rox.org Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Attribution: zeDek X-Url-GnusFr: http://www.gnusfr.org X-Url-EmacsFr: http://www.emacsfr.org X-Home-Page: http://www.gnu-rox.org/~zedek/cgi-bin/wiki.pl X-Gpg-Key-ID: 1E028EA5 X-Gpg-Fingerprint: FDB0 EE1F 33E5 8C22 5E3E 96E7 6900 CA9B 1E02 8EA5 X-Face: "qG{UC8GPzro#PZ!Jgisuj0]=k10 f#d596CJMPGOGwB'j\^JR2g0']N%L:ylC`?.l8u#JuS#CygUA}avHHVJJ!#ub7CxX#u]g}?z,hQ;c q%v]"[$!BfS X-In-No-Sense: Nonsense X-Whatever: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:394k5cAttC1sJkesHDPyzAQh1Rg= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:56547 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:56547 On 3 mar 2004, Marcus Frings wrote: * Xavier Maillard wrote: > > > 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. > > Yes, it's a very nice feature, isn't it? :-) > > > I admit it could be useful but my problem is I don't even know when > > people use it exactly (if ever used). > > So can somebody explain me when does he use this feature ? > > I use it quite often. In addition I have: > > ;; How to find the parent article > (setq gnus-refer-article-method > '(current > (nntp "iridium.home.local") ; first my local inn, then > (nntp "news.t-online.de") ; news.t-online.de, then > (nnweb "google" (nnweb-type google)) ; groups.google.com and finally > (nntp "news.gmane.org"))) ; news.gmane.org > > Since I let Gnus show me new articles only and I often need to go up > within the thread I usually hit ^ instead of rebuilding the thread by > `A R' or `A T'. Besides my local inn stores articles just for 4 months > so it is a great feature to look at other newsservers with the code > mentioned above. Thank you for your explanations. I am also thinking on installing my own local nntp server here. I am still trying to see which one between inn, inn2 and leafnode I should use :) Maybe you can help me to choose ? Is inn and inn2 the same (one the evolution of the other) ? zeDek -- "sometimes i feel like we're making emacs better and better because we don't know what to do with emacs once it is finished." -- AlexSchroeder on #emacs @OPN