On Mon, Jul 26 2021, Michael Heerdegen wrote: > Roland Winkler <wink...@gnu.org> writes: > >> I found this old thread. Could it make sense to have a minor mode >> that puts the `invisible' text property on all lines without >> process-mark? > > I played with limiting since then (a concept that is a bit more advanced > than making lines invisible and already exists). > > AFAIK there is no command that lets you limit to process marked > articles, but it should be trivial to write using `gnus-summary-limit' > (limits to a given article list).
Yes, thank you, limiting goes very much in the direction I want. -- I like the two-step process of first marking the messages I want, and only afterwards limiting the summary buffer because I can check whether I have identified all messages I wanted to identify before the unmarked messages become invisible. Hopefully, it will be not too difficult to teach Gnus to limit the Summary buffer based on the process-mark. > You might also want to test something like > > #+begin_src emacs-lisp > (defun my-gnus-limit-to-current-thread () Thanks! - If gnus can identify a thread correctly, the problem is pretty much solved anyway. I am concerned about the annoying cases where the discussion of a topic spreads out into multiple threads because someone continued the discussion with a new message using a different subject header and ignoring the references headers used previously. Typically, this takes me multiple iterations of hand-crafted search criteria to identify all messages that have contributed to the discussion of a topic. It just came to my mind: does Gnus allow one to add a custom header like a "topic ID" that could help me two months later when I need to revisit the discussion of a topic that was distributed over multiple apparently unrelated threads? There are all kinds of Gnus commands for article washing and manipulating article headers. Yet I have not identified anything that could be (mis-) used for such a purpose. _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english