Re: gnus won't cache articles retrieved with gnus-summary-refer-parent-article (`^')

[RL <alcoco@carrotmail.com>]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> RL <alcoco@carrotmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Pressing `^' in a summary buffer runs
> > `gnus-summary-refer-parent-article' which retrieves a parent post.
> > But what if I want to add this parent to the cache (using `*' which
> > runs `gnus-cache-enter-article')? gnus tells me it can't cache article
> > -1.
> >
> > Is this a bug, or is there some way to cache such articles?

> This is a missing feature.  A workaround would be to C-u 9 9 9 M-g
> in the group (which fetches 999 articles by number) and then do `^'
> and hope that your article was amongst these.  If not, try larger
> numbers.  This is slow.

ah OK. that would have worked for the particular instance I was
thinking of anyway.  In fact I just forwarded the message
to myself and cached the new copy (though with your way it owuld have
been in the right group--a news group).

But how come gnus can't operate on the retrieved messages? For
caching, couldnt gnus just save the message in a file?

Anyway thanks for the advice from everyone who responded.