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https://github.com/unhammer/gnus-recent

Avoid having to open Gnus and find the right group just to get back to that e-mail you were reading.
https://github.com/unhammer/gnus-recent

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Avoid having to open Gnus and find the right group just to get back to that e-mail you were reading.

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#+TITLE: gnus-recent



[[https://melpa.org/#/gnus-recent][https://melpa.org/packages/gnus-recent-badge.svg]]

[[https://stable.melpa.org/#/gnus-recent][https://stable.melpa.org/packages/gnus-recent-badge.svg]]



Avoid having to open Gnus and find the right Group just to get back to

that e-mail you were reading.



Or hit a key while reading one article to pop back through the stack

of previously read articles, even if they were in a different Group.



Or insert a link to a recently read e-mail in an org-mode buffer by

just picking one with completion:



#+ATTR_HTML: :alt demo of gnus-recent inserting link with ivy in org-mode

[[file:gnus-recent-org-mode.gif][file:gnus-recent-org-mode.gif]]



* Installation



If you use [[https://melpa.org/][MELPA]], you can just do =M-x list-packages=, find

=gnus-recent= in the list and hit =i x=.



The Melpa packages doesn't include the ivy/helm stuff, you'll have to

clone the repo if you want those.



* Configuration



Require and bind whatever keys you prefer to the interactive function:



#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp

  (use-package gnus-recent

    :ensure t  ; if you want it from MELPA

    ; :load-path "~/src/gnus-recent" ; if you're running from a git clone

    :demand t ; so that it's loaded after gnus even though we use :bind

    :after gnus

    :bind (("" . gnus-recent)

           :map gnus-summary-mode-map ("l" . gnus-recent-goto-previous)

           :map gnus-group-mode-map ("C-c L" . gnus-recent-goto-previous)))

#+END_SRC



If you use [[https://github.com/oantolin/embark][Embark]], add the following to be able to insert org links on =l=:



#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp

  (add-hook 'minibuffer-setup-hook #'gnus-recent-embark-minibuffer-hook)

#+END_SRC



* Usage



After reading some articles in Gnus and then doing whatever, doing

=gnus-recent-goto-previous= will open the last read article and rotate

the list, so you can keep calling it to go further back.



Doing =gnus-recent= will let you pick an article to re-open.



If you use =gnus-recent-ivy=, you can hit =M-o l= to insert an

=org-mode= link to the article instead.



* Alternatives



- [[https://github.com/deusmax/gnus-notes][gnus-notes]] is a fork of =gnus-recent= which adds some more features

  (persistence, get a Helm list of Gnus links of the current Org

  subtree, etc.)

- [[https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/The-Gnus-Registry.html][The Gnus Registry]] might be persuaded to do =gnus-recent='s job if

  you ask it nicely