Re: generate an ephemeral group from a topic?

[James Thomas]

Joshua Barrett writes:

> I was wondering if there was a way to construct an nnselect group from
> the currently selected topic that contains all the unread messages in
> all groups in the topic, or all messages from all groups in a
> topic. There doesn't seem to be a really clean mechanism to get a list
> of articles to read from a group without invoking gnus-articles-to-read,
> which depends on a whole bunch of global state that may not be set
> correctly. So I figure I need to activate each group in turn and use
> gnus-articles-to-read, or straight-up copy and paste a whole bunch of
> the selection logic out. Is there something I'm missing?

If you want to get the unread articles beforehand then I guess you'd
have to activate them, as only the backend would know that. But wouldn't
it be better to use (info "(gnus) Combined Groups") and simply view the
unread ones?

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