Bernt Hansen <be...@norang.ca> writes: > Dan <dandavis...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Incidentally, can any gnus users tell me -- is there a non-painful way of >> retrieving an old message from nntp in order to create a reply in the correct >> thread? Or do you hack the headers to make it appear in the right thread? I'm >> using the gmane web interface to send this. > > I read the list through gnus and gmane. When I'm in the summary buffer > for the org-mode list I can retrieve old messages with > > / O 500 RET > > to get the last 500 messages from the list.
Thanks Bernt and Seb, but that was the route I was referring to when I said "painful" :) The list volume is quite high, and retrieving thousands of messages takes a while. And of course you go for 1500 and it turns out to be message 1728... It seems a rather primitive practice, can we really not do better? Is it not possible to use a unique identifier to pull down a specific message? (I was not reading usenet or whatever it was called in the 1980s; I don't really know anything about these technologies.) Dan > Then you can limit the displayed messages by some filter (say subject) with > > / / <filter text> RET > > On a message ^ will retrieve the previous message in the thread and you > can do that repeatedly to get the entire thread displayed. > > Then I just reply normally to a specific message with > S W > > and It Just Works(tm) > > HTH, > Bernt > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
