Re: agent/fetch only articles from certain levels

[Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>]

Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> writes:

> Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Is there a way to make the default key binding for
>>> gnus-group-get-new-news only fetch from a certain configured level and
>>> below? I dont see it from the docstring. I do see I can prefix each time
>>> but using agent and data roaming , the common use case would be for
>>> "rescan" to only rescan high priority (or low level..) groups where the
>>> boundary is a configured level (if set to nil it rescans all).
>>>
>>
>> I have gnus-activate-level set to 2 for this reason with most groups'
>> levels set at 3 except for the high priority ones.  'g' is the command
>> for rescanning (getting email into/from) groups.
>>
>> Assuming I understood your question correctly, of course ;-)
>
> Yes thats kind of it. Now let me explain (my!) confusion.
>
> The behaviour *unplugged* is where I'm at. Since unplugged you are using
> the agent then it makes little sense to me not to activate subscribed
> groups. I have already done a C-u 5 g in plugged mode to scan all level
> 5 and below followed by a Js to download. If I then quit gnus and
> restart later (gnus-unplugged is my new "on holiday" default start) then
> since I can *see* the subscribed groups (the level of subscridness means
> they are subscribed and visible) then there is no immediately obvious
> reason not to activate them in unplugged too since its just a case of
> displaying the group line activated with the already stored unread
> count. As it is I need to C-u 5 g again (unplugged). Does this make some
> kind of sense?
>

I think I do understand.  You may wish to set not only
gnus-activate-level but also gnus-activate-foreign-newsgroups to 5?  It
defaults to 4, I believe.

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: Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.50.1 + No Gnus v0.16