Re: Message Threading or Interleaving Your Replies

James Thomas <[email protected]> Tue, 01 Apr 2025 15:50:05 +0530
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.gnus.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
James Thomas writes:

> It uses whatever is the -search-engine. So you can set up indexing with
> notmuch etc.
>
>> But more importantly, the whole business of just-in-time search to
>> reconstruct threads is like Armstrong returning to the Moon to retrieve
>> his house keys.  Even in 1995 when Gnus was written, there was a clear
>> notion of a message thread.  Not keeping its constituent messages
>> contiguous on disk was just a basic design mistake.  With gcc-self, I
>> can rectify this error without insane gymnastics.
>
> True, but some won't want to mix. The mentioned nnvirtual is another
> option.

And (to go beyond this thread's purview) you may even add 'drafts' to
this system and warp to it with 'A W' followed by 'e'.

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