From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/68232 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Wang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: How to only fetch old articles of a specified thread. Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:29:06 +0800 Message-ID: References: <87d4e5t89p.fsf@vip.qq.com> <87r62kirph.fsf@turtle.gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1233394242 10733 80.91.229.12 (31 Jan 2009 09:30:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 09:30:42 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M16673@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Jan 31 10:31:55 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LTCCg-0001NQ-7I for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:31:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LTCAG-0006QO-D7; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:29:24 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LTCAE-0006Q4-LN for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:29:22 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LTCAA-0001mb-Lr for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:29:22 -0600 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1LTCAT-0004Ss-00 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:29:37 +0100 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LTCA8-0006tg-MU for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 09:29:16 +0000 Original-Received: from 116.60.36.101 ([116.60.36.101]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 09:29:16 +0000 Original-Received: from peterwang by 116.60.36.101 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 09:29:16 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 116.60.36.101 User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Q0In3+cos8KDm4AEv9BvBF4ZWKU= X-Spam-Score: -1.5 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:68232 Archived-At: Sven Joachim 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, | 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