Re: HowTo: Search emacs-devel using gnus

[raman@google.com (T.V Raman)]

could someone automate this away with an elisp function:-)

Michael Heerdegen writes:
 > Hi Tino!
 > 
 > Thanks for your answer, it probably saved me a lot of time to invent
 > this myself.
 > 
 > > You can use `eww' to get the message-id:
 > > I)
 > > M-x: eww https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/ RET
 > > ;; Do a search of some words related with the topic you are looking for.
 > > ;; For instance,
 > > Search emacs-devel using gnus
 > >
 > > ;; Let's pick up the first result:
 > > M-x eww-view-source RET
 > 
 > Aka v in my eww version.
 > 
 > > ;; Go to beginning of buffer.  You can get the Message-id and
 > > ;; several cross reference.
 > >
 > > II)
 > > Now, you can call `gnus-summary-goto-article' with first arg
 > > the message ID in I).
 > >
 > > j MESSAGE-ID RET
 > 
 > Yip, works like a charm!
 > 
 > > For short threads is OK, but for long threads, sometimes is time
 > > consuming to get the right message id.
 > 
 > Once I have the id of one message from that thread, I can use A T
 > (`gnus-summary-refer-thread': "Fetch all articles in the current
 > thread.") and search from within Gnus.
 > 
 > 
 > Thanks again,
 > 
 > Michael.

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