Re: how do you subscribe to new groups if I don't save-killed

["Patrick J. LoPresti" <patl@eiffel.lcs.mit.edu>]

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>>>>> "larsi" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

 larsi> gsstark@MIT.EDU (Greg Stark) writes:
 >> I'm not sure I understand what's going here, i think that if I
 >> have have: gnus-save-killed-list nil gnus-check-new-newsgroups
 >> 'ask-server
 >> 
 >> then Gnus doesn't know about any killed groups so when i use `j'
 >> or `U' it completes to just the groups I am subscribed to or are
 >> zombie groups.  I'm not sure the value of check-new-newsgroups is
 >> relevant, but I think save-killed-list is.

 larsi> Well, the "solution" is to set `gnus-read-active-file' to t.
 larsi> This will make startup slower, though.

 larsi> One way or another, Gnus has to know what groups are
 larsi> available.  Either it must save the list of killed groups, or
 larsi> it must read the active file if you want to be able to do this
 larsi> sort of thing.

Perhaps there should be a way to ask Gnus to read the active file
explicitly?  The only time I need the active file read is when
subscribing to new groups, which isn't very often.

Thanks!

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