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

[Marcus Frings <iam-est-hora-surgere@despammed.com>]

* Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org> 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.

Regards,
Marcus
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