From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/6685 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jbw@cs.bu.edu (Joe Wells) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: yet more Gnus questions & problems Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 00:48:05 -0400 Message-ID: <199606140448.AAA11991@csb.bu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035147105 4428 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:51:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:51:45 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from spork.callamer.com (root@spork.callamer.com [199.74.141.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id WAA12496 for ; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 22:16:56 -0700 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by spork.callamer.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA10043 for ; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 22:15:23 -0700 (PDT) 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 ; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 06:50:34 +0200 Original-Received: from csb.bu.edu by cs.bu.edu (8.6.10/Spike-2.1) id AAA22665; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 00:48:08 -0400 Original-Received: by csb.bu.edu (8.6.10/Spike-2.1) id AAA11991; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 00:48:05 -0400 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no Sent-via: ding@ifi.uio.no Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6685 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6685 Hi, Gnus folks, First, I have some more questions. Then I have some minor problem reports. Questions: 1. In the group buffer, what can be supplied as the ADDRESS argument of "G m"? An example would be helpful. 2. Can Gnus be made to work with a compressed mail folder via nnfolder? I have a bunch of old mail archives that I would like to keep compressed at all times, but also access via Gnus. 3. Where (in what file) do I set the newgroup description for an nndir group? For example, the group nndir+/ftp@ftp.hpc.uh.edu:/pub/emacs/ding-list-recent/:ding.recent which I use to read this mailing list. 4. This is a question about the representation of newsgroup information in memory. Are all marks (tick, dormant, reply, expirable, etc.) kept as uncompressed lists in gnus-newsrc-alist? Are they assumed to be in order? I know they are stored as compressed, ordered sequences in the .newsrc.eld file. I want to write some code that manipulates these items and I need to know: a. What assumptions, if any, can I make about the data format of marks? Can I assume the mark lists are always ordered with no duplicates? b. What data format must my code follow in order not to break other code? For example, can I store a compressed sequence for one of the mark types? (I think the answer is no to my example question.) c. Is is required and/or guaranteed that the ticked and/or dormant mark lists do not overlap with the list of read articles? Are any of these sets guaranteed to be non-overlapping? Minor problem reports for Gnus v5.1: Gnus v5.1; nntp 4.0; nnml 1.0; nnmh 1.0; nndir 1.0; nndoc 1.0; nnfolder 1.0 1. "M-g" doesn't work inside a digest group. 2. In group buffer, "j foo RET" does not perform completion on "foo". Instead it just errors. 3. In summary buffer, if one #-marks part 1 of 2 of a uuencoded thingy, then "X u" doesn't fetch both parts. It seems like it should. 4. In summary buffer, marking multiple articles with # and then doing "X v u" seems to decode all of them before starting the viewer for any of them. 5. In group buffer, "A k" does not display killed mail groups. It only shows killed groups from the default nntp server. 6. Using nnml, the ~/Mail/newsgroups file needs every line prefixed with "nnml:" in order for Gnus to find a mail group's description. This seems logically wrong since inside the backend newsgroups should not have the prefix. 7. In group buffer, "C-u C-c C-d" has the side effect of wiping out all descriptions for newsgroups from every other server. -- Joe Wells