Show group for article found via search?

[Loris Bennett]

Hi,

My IMAP mail is currently organised as quite a few nested folders, which
I group together using topics:

[mail]
[general]
nnimap+mail.my.provider.com:INBOX
nnimap+mail.my.provider.com:sent
[work]
nnimap+mail.my.provider.com:this
nnimap+mail.my.provider.com:that
nnimap+mail.my.provider.com:theother
[private]
nnimap+mail.my.provider.com:friends
nnimap+mail.my.provider.com:family
[news]
...

If I use G G on a topic to search for a message and get several results,
is there a way to find out which folder each message found is in?

Cheers

Loris
--
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[Tassilo Horn]

"Loris Bennett" <loris....@fu-berlin.de> writes:

> [mail]
> [general]
> nnimap+mail.my.provider.com:INBOX
> nnimap+mail.my.provider.com:sent
> [work]
> nnimap+mail.my.provider.com:this
> nnimap+mail.my.provider.com:that
> nnimap+mail.my.provider.com:theother
> [private]
> nnimap+mail.my.provider.com:friends
> nnimap+mail.my.provider.com:family
> [news]
> ...
>
> If I use G G on a topic to search for a message and get several
> results, is there a way to find out which folder each message found is
> in?

I think, there's no way to see that information from the nnir search
results summary. But you can "warp" to any article found in its
originating group:

,----[ (info "(gnus)Basic Usage") ]
| The `nnir' group made in this way is an `ephemeral' group, and some
| changes are not permanent: aside from reading, moving, and deleting,
| you can't act on the original article. But there is an alternative: you
| can _warp_ to the original group for the article on the current line
| with `A W', aka `gnus-warp-to-article'. Even better, the function
| `gnus-summary-refer-thread', bound by default in summary buffers to `A
| T', will first warp to the original group before it works its magic and
| includes all the articles in the thread. From here you can read, move
| and delete articles, but also copy them, alter article marks, whatever.
| Go nuts.
`----

Bye,
Tassilo

[Loris Bennett]

Thanks for the hint (why didn't I think of googling for 'warp'?), but I
don't get it. What is supposed to happen? Using the bindings or
calling the functions explicitly doesn't seem to do anything.

[Andrew Cohen]

You can have the original group displayed in the summary line. Check out
the nnir customization node in the info file. The relevant bit is:

`nnir-summary-line-format'
The format specification to be used for lines in an nnir summary
buffer. All the items from `gnus-summary-line-format' are
available, along with three items unique to nnir summary buffers:

%Z Search retrieval score value (integer)
%G Article original full group name (string)
%g Article original short group name (string)

If nil (the default) this will use `gnus-summary-line-format'.

[Tassilo Horn]

Andrew Cohen <co...@bu.edu> writes:

> You can have the original group displayed in the summary line. Check
> out the nnir customization node in the info file.

Hey, cool! Thanks for the pointer.

Bye,
Tassilo