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- From: idf@cs.bham.ac.uk (Ian Fitchet)
- Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus
- Subject: Retrieving a thread tree
- Message-ID: <IDF.92Jul29121449@owl.cs.bham.ac.uk>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 12:14:49 GMT
- Sender: news@cs.bham.ac.uk
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- Organization: School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham
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-
- Hi,
-
- Please excuse my ignorance (though I do find it blissful :-),
- I have been tackling the problem of retieving an entire thread
- subtree.
-
- Often I have been reading a message and realised I have missed
- something vital in the thread or I want to read the whole thread from
- the beginning, there then comes the problem of retrieving the thread.
- I have found two ways, neither does _exactly_ the job.
-
- 1. Having read all the articles in the group I can reread the
- group and search through for the thread and execute
- gnus-Subject-kill-thread with a positive argument and I can then read
- the thread quite happily.
-
- This method has the problem that in a high volume newsgroup it
- can take ages to reread the group.
-
- 2. I can jump back up the tree using
- gnus-Subject-refer-article[-parent] which takes me to one of the
- current article's ancestor's. This again is OKish but it doesn't add
- the new article to the list of `manipulable' articles in the *Subject*
- buffer, all I can do is get back to the original article.
-
- It should be noted that the refer command doesn't take much
- time to find the relevant article in the database, which is good.
-
- [My feeling is that you should be able to have the new article
- added to the *Subject* buffer.]
-
-
- Anyway, my question is, is there a method to retrieve an
- _entire_ tree/branch from the current article, ie a refer command to
- run back through the ancestors and inserting them into the *Subject*
- buffer? Perhaps then a (slightly :-) computationally intensive OPTION
- to search the database for the other branches of the thread.
-
- Any flames to a minimum, please, I've given up on asbestos on
- health grounds.
-
- --
- Cheers,
-
- Ian
-
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- Ian Fitchet I.D.Fitchet@cs.bham.ac.uk
- School of Computer Science
- Univ. of Birmingham, UK, B15 2TT
-