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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Alberto Luaces <aluaces@udc.es>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: How to set the default articles to fetch when selecting groups
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:47:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ilg2ndqg.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y1oy80p8.fsf@eps142.cdf.udc.es> (Alberto Luaces's message of "Thu, 16 Feb 2023 09:38:11 +0100")

>>>>> On Thu, 16 Feb 2023 09:38:11 +0100, Alberto Luaces <aluaces@udc.es> said:

    Alberto> Chen Zhaoyang writes:
    >> Hello friends,
    >> 
    >> For now I just have a wrapper function that I have binded to RET in
    >> gnus-group-mode-map:
    >> 
    >> (defun site/gnus-group-select-group () (interactive)
    >> (gnus-group-select-group 100))
    >> 
    >> to fetch only the newest 100 messages from a group. I have dug into the
    >> manuals for a little bit but I have not found such a variable that would
    >> let me set the default number of articles to fetch.

    Alberto> Hi, as I read from the documentation of gnus-group-select-group, there
    Alberto> is no default number of articles to display.

    Alberto> I think yours is a very good solution to the problem.

You can do this with either per-group group parameters, or for all
groups using the `gnus-parameters' variable, via the `display'
parameter. See (info "(gnus) Group Parameters")

Robert
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  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-16  9:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-15 23:15 Chen Zhaoyang
2023-02-16  8:38 ` Alberto Luaces
2023-02-16  9:47   ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2023-02-16 15:17   ` Chen Zhaoyang

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