Joshua Barrett writes: > I was wondering if there was a way to construct an nnselect group from > the currently selected topic that contains all the unread messages in > all groups in the topic, or all messages from all groups in a > topic. There doesn't seem to be a really clean mechanism to get a list > of articles to read from a group without invoking gnus-articles-to-read, > which depends on a whole bunch of global state that may not be set > correctly. So I figure I need to activate each group in turn and use > gnus-articles-to-read, or straight-up copy and paste a whole bunch of > the selection logic out. Is there something I'm missing?
If you want to get the unread articles beforehand then I guess you'd have to activate them, as only the backend would know that. But wouldn't it be better to use (info "(gnus) Combined Groups") and simply view the unread ones? --
