Michael Heerdegen wrote: >>> It will then be the summary buffer article at point, not >>> the selected one. If one is selected, it would make more >>> sense to operate on that. >> >> Probably, but how that works I don't know, this >> >> (gnus-summary-article-number) >> >> is 20086 in the summary buffer but opening that up and >> doing the same thing in that buffer (the article buffer) >> I get 20085, but not point nor highlight has moved in the >> summary buffer ... ? > > Looks like this function is useful only when called with the > summary buffer current.
But as long as there is a summary buffer one could use point to determine what article to act upon, so, if someone would solve that practically, then a similar, improved version of that function would be callable from wherever in Emacs and still find and article and, from there, a header field value. -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal
