From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: GNUS: how to see all recent messages? Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2022 10:50:25 -0700 Message-ID: <87fsf0udum.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <8735b225lb.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> <87a659dr6g.fsf@thaodan.de> <875yfwbdge.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="1202"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:2LFTZuNaAyvSx1TYUYeGMrqtXPI= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 03 18:51:34 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oqeNK-00005E-8G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2022 18:51:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oqeMt-00041Z-3V; Thu, 03 Nov 2022 13:51:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oqeMg-0003sA-W5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2022 13:51:03 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oqeMT-0006yf-G3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2022 13:50:44 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oqeMQ-0009RF-7P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2022 18:50:38 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:140614 Archived-At: Eric S Fraga writes: > On Wednesday, 2 Nov 2022 at 22:42, Björn Bidar wrote: >> I've been only a gnus user quite recently but I think the nnvirtual >> backends would work for that use case. > > I use virtual groups and they won't work for this use case. The > retrieval of "old" articles does not retrieve from all groups involved + > sort + select... which is what would be necessary. If your Emacs/Gnus has gnus-search, you can do this with a search group, though all backends involved will have to have some sort of search indexer on them. Mark the groups you want to include, and use "G g" to create a permanent search group. The query should be something like "-mark:read".