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Re: Show group for article found via search?
From: |
Loris Bennett |
Subject: |
Re: Show group for article found via search? |
Date: |
Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:22:33 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) |
Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:
> "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> writes:
>
>> [mail]
>> [general]
>> nnimap+mail.my.provider.com:INBOX
>> nnimap+mail.my.provider.com:sent
>> [work]
>> nnimap+mail.my.provider.com:this
>> nnimap+mail.my.provider.com:that
>> nnimap+mail.my.provider.com:theother
>> [private]
>> nnimap+mail.my.provider.com:friends
>> nnimap+mail.my.provider.com:family
>> [news]
>> ...
>>
>> If I use G G on a topic to search for a message and get several
>> results, is there a way to find out which folder each message found is
>> in?
>
> I think, there's no way to see that information from the nnir search
> results summary. But you can "warp" to any article found in its
> originating group:
>
> ,----[ (info "(gnus)Basic Usage") ]
> | The `nnir' group made in this way is an `ephemeral' group, and some
> | changes are not permanent: aside from reading, moving, and deleting,
> | you can't act on the original article. But there is an alternative: you
> | can _warp_ to the original group for the article on the current line
> | with `A W', aka `gnus-warp-to-article'. Even better, the function
> | `gnus-summary-refer-thread', bound by default in summary buffers to `A
> | T', will first warp to the original group before it works its magic and
> | includes all the articles in the thread. From here you can read, move
> | and delete articles, but also copy them, alter article marks, whatever.
> | Go nuts.
> `----
>
> Bye,
> Tassilo
Thanks for the hint (why didn't I think of googling for 'warp'?), but I
don't get it. What is supposed to happen? Using the bindings or
calling the functions explicitly doesn't seem to do anything.
Cheers
Loris
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