How to fetch already read articles into summary buffer in gnus?

Question

While in summary buffer how can I make gnus fetching already read articles in two situations:

while in a thread with some articles already read (and thus not visible). I would like to complete the thread with all the articles (not only parents!) read or unread.
fetch last N read articles which are not visible.

Thanks a ton!

This is definitely not a programming question, so belongs on [Super User](http://superuser.com/). @VitoshKa: don't repost your question, it will be migrated automatically once enough people vote to migrate. — Gilles 'SO- stop being evil', Oct 09 '10 at 19:10

score 25 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 09 '10 at 19:08

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In the summary buffer, to fetch the parent, use ^ (gnus-summary-refer-parent-article) (also available as <menu-bar> <Article> <Fetch parent of article>).

To fetch the whole thread (at least the part that's still on your server), use A T (gnus-summary-refer-thread) (<menu-bar> <Article> <Fetch current thread>).

To fetch more articles, use / o (gnus-summary-insert-old-articles) (also available as <menu-bar> <Gnus> <See old articles>).

answered Oct 09 '10 at 19:08

Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'

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Oh, thanks. It was exactly what I needed. A good lesson to look into menus for the feature. I was completely ignoring them; such a bad habit:) – VitoshKa Oct 09 '10 at 20:08

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 09 '10 at 16:56

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For the first question, try

(setq gnus-fetch-old-headers 'some)

in your .gnus

for the second, when you select the group, it should ask you how many old articles you want to fetch. Does that not work?

answered Oct 09 '10 at 16:56

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I needed those actions after entering the summary buffer. Gilles pointed out the solution. Thanks for the answer anyway. – VitoshKa Oct 09 '10 at 20:10

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 07 '13 at 21:00

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While ^ and / o commands already mentioned this one useful for debugging: M-^ (gnus-summary-refer-article) when you work with message pain text (which you can get by C-u g).

gnus-summary-refer-parent-article internally used gnus-summary-refer-article...

answered Apr 07 '13 at 21:00

gavenkoa

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered May 17 '16 at 04:33

(defun codefalling/gnus-show-all ()
  "Show all mail"
  (interactive)
  (gnus-summary-insert-old-articles t) ;; show all, or t->50 to show 50 old mail
  (goto-char (point-min)))

(add-hook 'gnus-summary-mode-hook '(lambda () (run-with-idle-timer 0.1 nil 'codefalling/gnus-show-all)))

Then gnus will show all mail read or unread.

How to fetch already read articles into summary buffer in gnus?

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