Re: GNUS: how to see all recent messages?

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> writes:

>>> And you will find, or at least I do, that the old articles
>>> inserted are not necessarily the most recent. It depends on
>>> what groups make up the virtual group. I know there was
>>> a discussion about this behaviour some months ago now on
>>> the gnus list.
>>
>> Okay, but that means the virtual group isn't treated the
>> same way as a regular group.
>>
>> Either this discrepancy is in the group itself or
>> `gnus-summary-insert-old-articles' (and possibly other
>> functions as well) branch and treat it differently for some
>> reason ...
>
> I tried to tick articles and then open the group again.
> They are gone! So OK then, virtual groups seems to be an
> underpowered feature of Gnus ...

The newer nnselect backend, which provides a superset of nnvirtual's
functionality, doesn't have this problem with propagating marks to the
backend. The question of how to draw the "most recent" articles from
multiple constituent groups in an intuitive way is still an open issue,
however...