gnus-group-read-group: accept ranges as first argument

gnus-group-read-group: accept ranges as first argument

[Tino Calancha]

I see `gnus-group-read-group' with first arg N/-N
will fech the newest/oldest abs(N) articles.

This is somehow similar than what `debbugs-gnu-bugs' does:
-N: show the newest abs(N) bugs.
N: show the bug #N.
N-M: show the bugs N, N+1, ..., M-1, M.

Would be possible to accept ranges in `gnus-group-read-group'
as well?

I ask this because i am trying to read one article from
2008, more or less in the middle, so that neither N nor -N
help to catch my target article: in both cases abs(N)
need to be a large integer.

Is there a better way to download a particular
article than just using `gnus-group-read-group'? I am
still a newbie in gnus.

Tino
Thank you.

Re: gnus-group-read-group: accept ranges as first argument

[Andreas Schwab]

On Okt 08 2016, Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there a better way to download a particular
> article than just using `gnus-group-read-group'? I am
> still a newbie in gnus.

Enter the group and use j (gnus-summary-goto-article).

Andreas.

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Re: gnus-group-read-group: accept ranges as first argument

[Tino Calancha]

On Sat, 8 Oct 2016, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> On Okt 08 2016, Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Is there a better way to download a particular
>> article than just using `gnus-group-read-group'? I am
>> still a newbie in gnus.
>
> Enter the group and use j (gnus-summary-goto-article).
Thank you! That's a big improve.  I can get search the article
from
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/
and obtain the date it was submitted.  I don't know how to get
the ID or message ID, so i am downloading articles submitted around
same day.
Without having the ID of the article, a gnus function filtering by
subject would be save lot of time.

Re: gnus-group-read-group: accept ranges as first argument

[Tino Calancha]

On Sat, 8 Oct 2016, Tino Calancha wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, 8 Oct 2016, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>
>> On Okt 08 2016, Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Is there a better way to download a particular
>>> article than just using `gnus-group-read-group'? I am
>>> still a newbie in gnus.
>> 
>> Enter the group and use j (gnus-summary-goto-article).
> Thank you! That's a big improve.  I can get search the article
> from
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/
> and obtain the date it was submitted.  I don't know how to get
> the ID or message ID, so i am downloading articles submitted around
> same day.
> Without having the ID of the article, a gnus function filtering by
> subject would be save lot of time.
I realized that i can obtain the message id from the source.
For instance,
view-source:https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-10/msg00150.html

it shows the source of the first message in this thread.  The message ID 
appears above in the header.
I still believe a function filtering by subject may be useful in some 
cases.