Re: `^ ... RET' server mode adds groups to *Group*?

[ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> I'm still confused as to what it does.  Is it different than pressing
> `A A' in group buffer? 

There differences are that `A A'
    1. does not list groups on foreign servers;
    2. sorts groups by name and list them in flat mode;
    3. does not show the levels of groups.

> That server has some 29,000+ groups.
> 
> Pressing `A A' in Group gives me. 
> some 29,000 lines  1300K of active file
> 
> Pressing <RET> on that nntp server in server_buffer gives me some 40 lines 

Do you use it in unplugged mode?

> > > What I see is nothing more than `L' listing but limited to nntp
> > > server groups.

In unplugged mode, `^ RET' only list groups in saved active file and
killed-list, so it is nothing more than `L' listing.

> > It is because all of those groups are in gnus-killed-list.
> 
> But it displays almost instantly.  And `A k' in group
> shows some 15,000 lines

How many groups are from the nntp server?

> > First, it is in the wish list.  Second, you can do much more things in
> > the group buffer than in the Gnus browse server buffer.
> 
> So it is different than `A A'?

Yes.

ShengHuo

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