Husain Alshehhi wrote: >> In a temp buffer, no, but you can access the article buffer >> using eg `gnus-with-article' or `gnus-with-article-buffer', >> or even `gnus-with-article-headers' if you only care about >> the headers. > > I suppose that gnus-with-article-buffer works, almost. > In the case that I am in gnus summary page, with the point > on an unopened article, when I run the following: > > (defun husain--test-gnus-with-article-buffer() > (interactive) > (gnus-with-article-buffer > (message "%s" (message-fetch-field "Subject")))) > > It fails to read the subject. However, it works very well > after I open the article. I think this solves 95% of the > cases I run into.
If there isn't an article open, you can do that - with code - from the summary buffer before you fetch the field. If there is no article buffer and no summary buffer it is hard to think of a use case and moreover it will be hard to determine, in a way that makes sense, what mail or post the user refers to when hitting the command. -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal
