Re: View read articles in a group.

[Tassilo Horn <heimdall@uni-koblenz.de>]

Fredrik Bulow <kaliumfredrik@gmail.com> writes:

Hi Fredrik,

> How do I view all read articles in a group (i.e. the ones that show up
> marked with O's when there are no unread articles left). Strangely
> enough how to do this doesn't seem to be mentioned in the manual.

,----[ (info "(gnus)Selecting a Group") ]
| `SPACE'
|      Select the current group, switch to the summary buffer and
|      display the first unread article (`gnus-group-read-group').  If
|      there are no unread articles in the group, or if you give a
|      non-numerical prefix to this command, Gnus will offer to fetch
|      all the old articles in this group from the server.  If you give
|      a numerical prefix N, N determines the number of articles Gnus
|      will fetch.  If N is positive, Gnus fetches the N newest
|      articles, if N is negative, Gnus fetches the `abs(N)' oldest
|      articles.
| 
|      Thus, `SPC' enters the group normally, `C-u SPC' offers old
|      articles, `C-u 4 2 SPC' fetches the 42 newest articles, and `C-u
|      - 4 2 SPC' fetches the 42 oldest ones.
| 
|      When you are in the group (in the Summary buffer), you can type
|      `M-g' to fetch new articles, or `C-u M-g' to also show the old
|      ones.
`----

Or if you want to display only all (previously) read articles and let
the unread articles disappear, open the summary buffer with all articles
and limit it to read articles with `/ m O'. This works with all marks,
the 'O' is the gnus-ancient-mark, which applies to all messages you've
read in previous session.

Regards,
Tassilo
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