Re: Can't cache article -24

[Francis Moreau]

On Sep 24, 1:41 pm, Katsumi Yamaoka <yama...@jpl.org> wrote:
> >>>>> Francis Moreau wrote:
> > On Sep 24, 2:38 am, Katsumi Yamaoka <yama...@jpl.org> wrote:
> [...]
> >> Article numbered a minus value is not in the group you're in.
> > Well I actually used 'M-^' to fetch an old article and wanted to make
> > this article persistent.
> >> Group it's in is displayed in the Xref header (use t to show it).
> > In the fetched article, there's no Xref header whereas the other
> > articles have this header.
> > So I'm not sure why the Xref is missing.
>
> Hm, I know neither server nor method that doesn't provide the Xref
> header.  Oops, I forgot the Newsgroups header.  Can't groups listed
> there be used for identifying where the article in question comes
> from?  Though it is useless in groups other than nntp groups.
>

The newsgroups header is correct and is corresponding to my current
group.

So it looks like your assumption is incorrect.

> BTW, I use '%N' in `gnus-summary-line-format' to display article
> numbers as follows:
>
> (setq gnus-summary-line-format "%U%R%z%I%(%[%5N: %-9,9f%] %S%)\n")
>
> And I can see at least whether an article is in the group or not,
> by the polarity of the article number.

thanks for the tip