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Re: Question about gnus behavior
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Bob Fry |
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Re: Question about gnus behavior |
Date: |
Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:33:15 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) XEmacs/21.4.21 (windows-nt) |
>>>>> "TZ" == Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
TZ> On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:42:58 -0600 Peter Jones
TZ> <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> IIRC, when you enter a group, there is an implicit limit so
PJ> that the summary buffer only shows you unread articles. You
PJ> can try popping the limit "/w" and also adding old articles to
PJ> the limit "/o".
Yes, /o works.
TZ> I find it even easier to use
TZ> C-u 100 ENTER
This doesn't work; the thread I killed doesn't appear with the above
method.
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