Re: Show group for article found via search?

[Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>]

"Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> writes:

> [mail]
>   [general]
>     nnimap+mail.my.provider.com:INBOX     
>     nnimap+mail.my.provider.com:sent     
>   [work]
>     nnimap+mail.my.provider.com:this     
>     nnimap+mail.my.provider.com:that     
>     nnimap+mail.my.provider.com:theother     
>   [private]  
>     nnimap+mail.my.provider.com:friends     
>     nnimap+mail.my.provider.com:family  
> [news]
>   ...
>
> If I use G G on a topic to search for a message and get several
> results, is there a way to find out which folder each message found is
> in?

I think, there's no way to see that information from the nnir search
results summary.  But you can "warp" to any article found in its
originating group:

,----[ (info "(gnus)Basic Usage") ]
|    The `nnir' group made in this way is an `ephemeral' group, and some
| changes are not permanent: aside from reading, moving, and deleting,
| you can't act on the original article. But there is an alternative: you
| can _warp_ to the original group for the article on the current line
| with `A W', aka `gnus-warp-to-article'. Even better, the function
| `gnus-summary-refer-thread', bound by default in summary buffers to `A
| T', will first warp to the original group before it works its magic and
| includes all the articles in the thread. From here you can read, move
| and delete articles, but also copy them, alter article marks, whatever.
| Go nuts.
`----

Bye,
Tassilo