Re: How to attach messages in Gnus (was Re: Which one shall I choose?)

[Josh Huber <huber@alum.wpi.edu>]

Martin Schulz <schulz@iwrmm.math.uni-karlsruhe.de> writes:

> And what is if - - while already writing the message -- it comes to
> mind that I could cite that other message?

Good question.  I usually do this manually (C-x C-b, copy, paste,
etc), but having some sort of method to do this would be nice, IMHO.

how about:

(defun gnus-reply-buffers ()
  (delete nil (mapcar
	       (lambda (b) (if (string-match
				"^*\\(wide \\)?\\(followup\\|reply\\) to"
				(buffer-name b))
			       (cons (buffer-name b) b) nil))
	       (buffer-list))))

(defun gnus-article-yank-to-other-buffer (&optional n)
  (interactive "P")
  (let* ((articles (gnus-summary-work-articles n))
	 (buffers (gnus-reply-buffers))
	 (buffer 
	  (completing-read "Buffer to yank into: "
			   buffers
			   nil nil (caar buffers))))
    (set-buffer (get-buffer buffer))
    (gnus-inews-yank-articles articles)))

While composing a message, just switch to the summary buffer and M-x
gnus-article-yank-to-other-buffer and select the buffer you want to
cite.

Warning: this is a quick hack ;)  YMMV!

ttyl,

-- 
Josh Huber