Buffer read only?

Buffer read only?

[Norman Walsh]

I've just switched to NT Emacs 20.3.1 and pgnus 0.63.

I typically read mail and news with gnus.  I have an external process
that slurps up my mail and deposits it in ~/.incoming/mail.spool.
Then I use 'C-u 2 g' to snarf it into gnus.

With my new setup, gnus reads and splits the mail, then reports
 
   buffer is read only #<buffer *Group*>

I (setq debug-on-error t) and didn't get a traceback.  

If I exit gnus and return, all my mail shows up.

Bug or operator error?

--norm

P.S. Since I'm already sending a message...

- Is there any easy way to swap the functionality of "g" and "C-u 2 g"?

- All the lines in my group buffer end with ^M in Emacs 20.3.1.  Anyone
  got a hint about fixing that (I haven't tried yet)?

                                        Cheers,
                                          norm
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Re: Buffer read only?

[Kai.Grossjohann]

Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes:

  > - Is there any easy way to swap the functionality of "g" and "C-u 2 g"?

Set gnus-group-default-list-level to 2, then use `5 g' to retrieve new
messages for groups on levels <= 5.

kai
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^M removal (Re: Buffer read only?)

[Karl Kleinpaste]

Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes:
> - All the lines in my group buffer end with ^M in Emacs 20.3.1.  Anyone
>   got a hint about fixing that (I haven't tried yet)?

`W c' runs gnus-article-remove-cr.  Put it in your
gnus-article-display-hook.

Re: ^M removal (Re: Buffer read only?)

[Norman Walsh]

/ Karl Kleinpaste <karl@justresearch.com> was heard to say:
| Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes:
| > - All the lines in my group buffer end with ^M in Emacs 20.3.1.  Anyone
| >   got a hint about fixing that (I haven't tried yet)?
| 
| `W c' runs gnus-article-remove-cr.  Put it in your
| gnus-article-display-hook.

Yes, but I'm seeing this in the *Group* buffer, not in article buffers
(probably because I've already got remove-cr in the display hook, though
I haven't checked).

                                        Cheers,
                                          norm
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Re: ^M removal (Re: Buffer read only?)

[Karl Kleinpaste]

Sorry about that, I mis-read your report.  What does your
gnus-group-line-format contain?

Re: ^M removal (Re: Buffer read only?)

[Norman Walsh]

/ Karl Kleinpaste <karl@justresearch.com> was heard to say:
| Sorry about that, I mis-read your report.  What does your
| gnus-group-line-format contain?

*Blush* Nevermind. It ended with an embedded literal linebreak
instead of "\n". Emacs 20's end-of-line handling turned it into
a ^M where Emacs 19 used to just drop it, I guess. Wonder why I
did that, lo those many years ago. Thanks for pointing me in the
right direction...