From: Narendra Joshi <narendraj9@gmail.com>
To: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Cc: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Restoring threads that have been read/replied to
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 22:36:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r1gr9f07.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wnqjqavh.fsf@linaro.org> ("Alex =?utf-8?Q?Benn=C3=A9e=22's?= message of "Thu, 24 Jun 2021 21:12:36 +0100")
Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> writes:
> Narendra Joshi <narendraj9@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Due to issues with gmail's IMAP handling I've switched to interacting
>>> with my development mailing lists via gmane's archival service. I've
>>> having some problems understanding how the thread expiration policy works.
>>>
>>> I've been using T k (gnus-summary-kill-thread) to kill threads I'm not
>>> interested in. However there are a bunch of threads that I reply to or
>>> want to keep track of. However I'm finding after I've read them they
>>> disappear. If a reply to one of the threads appears I can't read it in
>>> context to the rest of the thread. So a quick question:
>>>
>>> - can I re-fetch a whole thread based on the references in the post
>>> that is visible in my summary?
>>>
>>> So far I can hi ^ (gnus-summary-refer-parent-article) and find the
>>> parent article again but what I really want is to fetch the whole thread
>>> with all it's context.
>>>
>>> Ideally this would be automatic for any thread that I've either posted
>>> and has replies or one that I've replied to.
>>
>> I face the same problem a lot of times. It's very annoying. The only
>> solutions that I could find so far are: `gnus-summary-refer-thread'
>> (bound to `A T` in the summary buffer) and
>> `gnus-summary-insert-old-articles' (bound to `/ o`) which I use if the
>> former doesn't work.
>>
>> If you find something better, please share it in this thread and
>> hopefully I will be able to find it later. :)
>
> From elsewhere in the group I currently have the following mapped to C-c
> t in my summary-mode keymap:
>
> (defun my-gnus-fetch-whole-thread ()
> "like `A R' `T o' `A T' in the summary buffer."
> (interactive)
> (gnus-summary-refer-references)
> (gnus-summary-top-thread)
> (gnus-summary-refer-thread))
>
>>
>> Best,
Interesting that it works for you. When I try the command in this
thread, I get this error:
Couldn’t fetch article <871r8rb2pn.fsf@gmail.com>
Best,
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Narendra Joshi
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-24 20:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-15 12:41 Alex Bennée
2021-06-16 7:52 ` Pankaj Jangid
2021-06-24 17:19 ` Narendra Joshi
2021-06-24 20:12 ` Alex Bennée
2021-06-24 20:36 ` Narendra Joshi [this message]
2021-06-24 21:25 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-06-27 12:02 ` Narendra Joshi
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