From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/6640 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jbw@cs.bu.edu (Joe Wells) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: miscellaneous Gnus problems/questions Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 00:11:20 -0400 Message-ID: <199606120411.AAA17430@csb.bu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035147066 4298 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:51:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:51:06 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA12260 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 21:40:24 -0700 Original-Received: from cs.bu.edu (root@CS.BU.EDU [128.197.13.2]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 06:13:48 +0200 Original-Received: from csb.bu.edu by cs.bu.edu (8.6.10/Spike-2.1) id AAA04381; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 00:11:23 -0400 Original-Received: by csb.bu.edu (8.6.10/Spike-2.1) id AAA17430; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 00:11:20 -0400 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no Sent-via: ding@ifi.uio.no Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6640 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6640 GNU Emacs 19.31.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.4, X toolkit) of Wed Jun 5 1996 on csb Gnus v5.1; nntp 4.0; nnml 1.0; nnmh 1.0; nndir 1.0; nndoc 1.0 This is a list of random assorted problems with Gnus and questions about Gnus. I am using the version of Gnus that comes with the latest Emacs, so these may be known and/or fixed already. 1. In the summary buffer, "X v u" seems to be refetching the article even if it is already in the article buffer. Why? 2. Using "o" on a pseudo-article in an attempt to save it doesn't seem to work. I could use "X U" on the original article, but this downloads the article from the news server and runs uudecode on it again, wasting a lot of time. I can also switch to the temporary directory and copy the file using the shell, but this is also time-consuming. 3. It would be nice if there were an option to create the pseudo-article in the summary *AND* to immediately view it. 4. What does the name "eething" mean? Why "ee"? 5. In summary, "I ?" splits the windows really funny. Pressing C-g to abort does not clean up window split. Only proceeding all the way through cleans up the windows. 6. The help text for "I a ?" lists match types that are not legal in combination with "a". It also has a duplicate description for match type "r". 7. For an "eval" keyword in a score file, how often is the form evaluated? Once per entering into the group? Before or after the group select hook? This needs some documentation. 8. The "P" command at beginning of buffer does not work in a group read via the "nndir" back end which uses a directory reached via ange-ftp. This is because it calls gnus-read-header which eventually ends up calling insert-file-contents-literally which disables ange-ftp. I encountered this problem reading: nndir+/ftp@ftp.hpc.uh.edu:/pub/emacs/ding-list-recent/:ding.recent 9. nnmail-request-post-buffer ignores its follow-to argument if its post argument is non-nil. This happens when using the "a" command in a mail group. This prevents the user's setting of gnus-followup-to-function from having any effect for mail groups. The same problem also seems to occur with nndir groups. (Yes, I know that I can get the desired result by setting a group parameter. This is what I have done.) 10. In the summary buffer, if you use "x" then "T T", the removed article lines come back. 12. nnmail-split-it adds "\\<" and "\\>" around the patterns the user supplies in nnmail-split-fancy. This breaks any patterns which don't begin and end at word boundaries. This is undocumented. It would be nice if this was optional. 13. "*" has word syntax in the article buffer. This interacts with the use of nnmail-split-fancy. This needs to be documented, because it can cause very confusing results. 14. It would be nice if threading did not use garbage subjects like "(none)", "hi", or "hello". Is there a garbage-subject regexp which I can set to tell the threading to ignore those subjects? 15. A bug in nnmail-split it: "\\>\\)" should be "\\)\\>". 16. Editing a SCORE file directly doesn't get noticed. What does one have to do to get the changes noticed by Gnus? 17. gnus-followup-to-function can be called with a argument of nil when the "a" command is used in the group buffer. This should be documented. Even better, use the group whose line point is on. 18. I have noticed when reading the group nndir+/ftp@ftp.hpc.uh.edu:/pub/emacs/ding-list-recent/:ding.recent that some of the read marks often get lost when I revisit the group. I can't figure out why this is happening. -- Joe Wells