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Alex Schroeder <alex@emacswiki.org> writes:

> jhbrown@ai.mit.edu (Jeremy H. Brown) writes:
> 
> > (defadvice nnmail-article-group (around name-article-buffer (&rest args))
> >   "name the article buffer for use in fancy splits"
> >   (let ((the-article-buffer (current-buffer)))
> >     ad-do-it))
> >
> > (ad-activate-regexp "name-article-buffer")
> 
> Is anything like that going to be in Gnus?  This seems to be really
> easy to implement.  Otherwise, we might consider adding the following
> macro:
> 
[snip]

Having thought about this more, I think what we really want is not a
variable gnus-the-article-buffer, but a function
(gnus-current-article-buffer) which returns a buffer containing the
current article.  We want a function because if you're using the imap
backend, normal splitting functions don't download the whole article,
just the headers; this function can download the article body if
necessary, and otherwise just immediately return the buffer with the
body in it.

Jeremy