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Re: Question about gnus behavior
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Ted Zlatanov |
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Re: Question about gnus behavior |
Date: |
Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:26:08 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.110009 (No Gnus v0.9) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:42:58 -0600 Peter Jones <mlists@pmade.com> wrote:
PJ> Bob Fry <bobfry@mailinator.com> writes:
>> I was visiting the rec.aviation.homebuilt newsgroup and killed a
>> thread with subject "Falcon Gauges". That was the end of unread
>> messages in the group so I exited. Then I decided, oh, I did want to
>> read that thread; so revisited the group. Since there were no unread
>> messages I typed 100 for the number of messages to retrieve. But that
>> particular thread did not appear. Why? I cannot figure out how to
>> see it again in gnus.
PJ> I'm a Gnus newb (less than two weeks), but I've been in the manual a
PJ> lot lately and thought I might be able to help.
PJ> IIRC, when you enter a group, there is an implicit limit so that the
PJ> summary buffer only shows you unread articles. You can try popping
PJ> the limit "/w" and also adding old articles to the limit "/o".
I find it even easier to use
C-u 100 ENTER
instead of just ENTER to enter a group. This says "give me the last
100, no matter what their flag is."
Ted