Re: Gnus: How to reference an article from a gmane mailing list

[H. Dieter Wilhelm]

Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

> H. Dieter Wilhelm wrote:
>
>>> Not sure if Gnus has a keybinding to copy them without
>>> going through "C-u g"; FWIW I've written this small helper:
>>
>>  (defun my/kill-message-id ()
>>    (interactive)
>>    (kill-new (mail-header-message-id (gnus-summary-article-header))))
>>
>> <871r2ofls5.fsf@gmail.com> (for the current one)
>>
>> Thanks, it seems to work (though the cursor is skipping to
>> the end of the message ;-))
>
> Uhm ... works?

Yes, when I'm in the *Summary ...* buffer it saves the respective
message ID (below for your message).

<87lf0wynln.fsf@zoho.eu>

> One would need a URL to the message in the archive, in this
> case
>
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2021-12/msg00117.html

Sorry, I don't understand your argument here.  The function revolves
about message IDs and not the links to a list archive.  (Which might be
more helpful in general, though. :-))

  Dieter

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H. Dieter Wilhelm
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