Re: Reconvering a whole thread

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:07:56 +0200, Alberto Luaces <aluaces@udc.es> wrote:
> Harry Putnam writes:
>> Alberto Luaces writes:
>>> while reading a nnimap folder, sometimes I want to recover the whole
>>> thread for the message I'm reading. I am currently using "A T", that is,
>>> gnus-summary-refer-thread, but nothing happens except the displaying of
>>> "Generating summary...done". Am I doing this correctly?
>>
>> I've had that happen to sometimes... One thing that seems to help here
>> is to reach a little further back into history.. so any messages in
>> your thread that not currently in the buffer... can be reached.
>>
>> Example:  C-u 1000 Shift-Z Shift-R
>>
>> will go back 1000 messages... (it may not take nearly so many) then
>> press `A-T' again... see if it helps.
>
> Yes, when I do that, all the messages in the group are shown. Pressing
> `A-T' doesn't seem to do anything special later. Maybe I misunderstood
> the command. I thought that I could recover only the rest of the posts
> of the thread that I'm reading with `A-T' instead of seeing all of them
> with a command like `/o' (gnus-summary-insert-old-articles).

I often use `/ n' followed by `/ T' to limit summary articles to the
current thread.  This seems to pull all the messages of the thread into
the summary buffer, including older ones.

Then when I'm done I pop the summary limit twice, by typing `/ w / w',
and (optionally) hide the old/deleted messages with `x'.

Maybe this is more useful than `A T'?