Re: GNUS: how to see all recent messages?

[Emanuel Berg]

Eric Abrahamsen wrote:

>>>> And you will find, or at least I do, that the old
>>>> articles inserted are not necessarily the most recent.
>>>> It depends on what groups make up the virtual group.
>>>> I know there was a discussion about this behaviour some
>>>> months ago now on the gnus list.
>>>
>>> Okay, but that means the virtual group isn't treated the
>>> same way as a regular group.
>>>
>>> Either this discrepancy is in the group itself or
>>> `gnus-summary-insert-old-articles' (and possibly other
>>> functions as well) branch and treat it differently for
>>> some reason ...
>>
>> I tried to tick articles and then open the group again.
>> They are gone! So OK then, virtual groups seems to be an
>> underpowered feature of Gnus ...
>
> The newer nnselect backend, which provides a superset of
> nnvirtual's functionality, doesn't have this problem with
> propagating marks to the backend. The question of how to
> draw the "most recent" articles from multiple constituent
> groups in an intuitive way is still an open issue,
> however...

Okay, but how does that happen with
`gnus-summary-insert-old-articles'? Does it compare some
header value? Or look at some index? Why doesn't that work on
virtual/select'd groups?

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