* bug#17789: `gnus-summary-make-false-root': `adopt' cascades?
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@ 2017-01-25 17:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2017-01-25 17:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Samuel Bronson; +Cc: 17789
Sorry for the late response; the bug report has been sitting in a part
of the bug tracker that nobody has looked at due to a misunderstanding.
Samuel Bronson <naesten@gmail.com> writes:
> Okay, so, I'm trying to gather many articles with related titles
> together into a "thread". I have it mostly working, but I'm puzzled by
> the behaviour I get with `gnus-summary-make-false-root' still set to
> `adopt'.
>
> How come it treats each article as a response to the previous article,
> so that eventually they march right off the side of the screen? I was
> rather expecting that the first one would adopt the rest directly.
I think that's how `adopt' works? At least it works that way for me.
> I guess I'm going to have to use `dummy', even if the dummy article does
> get a fairly random subject field. (Presumably, it's just using the one
> from the lowest numbered article?)
>
> (Also, the labels for `gnus-uu-mark-thread' and `gnus-uu-mark-thread' in
> the menu were a bit confusing; I nearly claimed in this report that
> `dummy' should be more lifelike, so that it's children would actually
> count as part of a single thread. Wait, um, uh, that seems to act on
> everything further down the summary??? Strange!)
When I execute that command, it just marks the current thread, so I'm
unable to reproduce this bug.
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