great. the updated patch is attached. for ORG-NEWS:

,----
| *** Links
| **** Links stored by org-gnus-store-link in nnir groups
| 
| Since gnus nnir groups are temporary, org-gnus-store-link
| now refers to the article's original group.
`----

best 


Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Thomas Alexander Gerds <tag@biostat.ku.dk> writes:
>
>> sometimes after searching for mail with notmuch, I want to save a
>> link to one of the articles shown in the nnir summary. since nnir
>> groups are temporary I would like org-gnus-store-link to treat nnir
>> groups differently and to use the articles orginal group when
>> creating the link. the following 3 lines change of
>> org-gnus-store-link does this for me. if this is interesting for
>> others maybe it could be integrated ... if not, I could either
>> advice org-gnus-store-link or add a modified version to
>> org-store-link-functions. comments?
>
> Sounds good. Thank you.
>
>>        (when (eq (car (gnus-find-method-for-group
>> gnus-newsgroup-name)) 'nnvirtual) (setq group (car
>> (nnvirtual-map-article (gnus-summary-article-number))))) + (when (eq
>> (car (gnus-find-method-for-group gnus-newsgroup-name)) + 'nnir) +
>> (setq group (nnir-article-group (gnus-summary-article-number))))
>
> I think the above could be wrapped within a cl-case, if only to
> compute (car (gnus-find-method-for-group gnus-newsgroup-name)) only
> once. Also, it may require an entry in ORG-NEWS, and a proper commit
> message.
>
> Would you mind sending an updated patch?
>
> Regards,
Thomas A. Gerds -- Assoc. Prof. Department of Biostatistics
University of Copenhagen, Oester Farimagsgade 5, 1014 Copenhagen, Denmark
Office: CSS-15.2.07 (Gamle Kommunehospital)
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