Re: Reading the article/message in elisp

[Emanuel Berg]

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.

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