From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/7438 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: unoder.spam@spam.jay.net (Martin =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F8rgensen?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: a couple of newbie questions with gnus Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 05:10:57 +0200 Organization: TDC Totalloesninger Message-ID: <13evk3-qk6.ln1@news.tdc.dk> References: <1e5fk3-853.ln1@news.tdc.dk> <867j4a4hm9.fsf@IAPonomarenko.isd.dp.ua> <3jtgk3-gv3.ln1@news.tdc.dk> <87k68a2jxv.fsf@ulm.malte.spiess> <9sphk3-4f1.ln1@news.tdc.dk> <87hd3djobd.fsf@ulm.malte.spiess> <9f1kk3-262.ln1@news.tdc.dk> <2qrok3-9g4.ln1@news.tdc.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1149046838 25490 80.91.229.2 (31 May 2006 03:40:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 03:40:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 31 05:40:33 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FlHZI-0005oZ-Cv for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 May 2006 05:40:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FlHZH-0004Hd-Ck for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 May 2006 23:40:23 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.aset.psu.edu!news.glorb.com!news.tele.dk!feed118.news.tele.dk!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (darwin) Original-Lines: 63 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.196.72.6 Original-X-Trace: 1149045147 dread14.news.tele.dk 926 80.196.72.6:61638 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@post.tele.dk Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:77621 Original-To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:7438 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn writes: > unoder.spam@spam.jay.net (Martin Jørgensen) writes: -snip- >> I think the default is that it only shows new messages... But it >> doesn't automatically show the old messages in that thread. > > Sorry, I got you wrong. See > > ,----[ C-h v gnus-fetch-old-headers RET ] > | gnus-fetch-old-headers is a variable defined in `gnus-sum.el'. > | Its value is some > | > | Documentation: > | *Non-nil means that Gnus will try to build threads by grabbing old > | headers. If an unread article in the group refers to an older, > | already read (or just marked as read) article, the old article will > | not normally be displayed in the Summary buffer. If this variable is > | t, Gnus will attempt to grab the headers to the old articles, and > | thereby build complete threads. If it has the value `some', all old > | headers will be fetched but only enough headers to connect otherwise > | loose threads will be displayed. This variable can also be a number. > | In that case, no more than that number of old headers will be fetched. > | If it has the value `invisible', all old headers will be fetched, but > | none will be displayed. > | > | The server has to support NOV for any of this to work. > | > | This feature can seriously impact performance it ignores all > | locally cached header entries. > | > | You can customize this variable. > `---- > > So set it to t, if you want complete threads, or set it to 'some (that's > what I do), to get as many old articles as are needed to build a > complete sumthread. > > If it's set to nil (the default) no old headers will be fetched. > > So put either > > (setq gnus-fetch-old-headers t) ;; complete threads > > or > > (setq gnus-fetch-old-headers 'some) ;; complete subthreads > > into your ~/.gnus.el. Thanks a lot - that was pretty clear and easy to understand. I've now set it to "complete subthreads" and tried it a bit. It shows a couple of old postings now, but not many... I might experiment a bit with this, but it looks better now... Best regards Martin Jørgensen -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Home of Martin Jørgensen - http://www.martinjoergensen.dk