Re: How to only fetch old articles of a specified thread.

[Peter Wang <peterwang@vip.qq.com>]

Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> writes:

Thanks for your reply.
> On 2009-01-30 11:09 +0100, Peter Wang wrote:
>
>> `/ o' in the summary buffer will insert old articles. 
>>
>> I wonder how to insert only old articles of a specified thread instead
>> of all old articles. so tracking threads acrossing a very long timeframe
>> may become more convenient. thanks.
>
> This is done with `A T':
>
> ,----
> | A T runs the command gnus-summary-refer-thread, which is an
> | interactive compiled Lisp function in `gnus-sum.el'.
> | 
> | It is bound to A T, <menu-bar> <Threads> <Find all messages in
> | thread>, <menu-bar> <Article> <Fetch current thread>.
> | 
> | (gnus-summary-refer-thread &optional limit)
> | 
> | Fetch all articles in the current thread.
> | If limit (the numerical prefix), fetch that many old headers instead
> | of what's specified by the `gnus-refer-thread-limit' variable.
> `----
>
> Somehow this does not seem to work very well on news.gmane.org,
> however. :-(

Yes, it doesn't work on gmane. I wonder others how to do that?

>
> Sven