From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/78085 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric S Fraga Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: agent/fetch only articles from certain levels Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 12:03:42 +0000 Message-ID: <87lj03v23l.fsf@pinto.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> References: <87zkokei6u.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <3waagj1nen.fsf@news.eternal-september.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301054716 22288 80.91.229.12 (25 Mar 2011 12:05:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 12:05:16 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M26396@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Mar 25 13:05:10 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q35lN-0002E6-Uv for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:05:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Q35kN-000276-74; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 07:04:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Q35kL-00026n-Hl for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 07:04:05 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q35kI-0001RV-VL for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 07:04:04 -0500 Original-Received: from vscani-d2.ucl.ac.uk ([144.82.108.133]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q35k6-0000VY-JG for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:03:50 +0100 Original-Received: from pinto.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk ([128.40.74.171] helo=localhost) by vscani-d.ucl.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q35jy-0001qf-Oe for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 12:03:42 +0000 X-Face: av6A"vZ{AypDB`d^.T35oG%$E*Qh]4F)K=*$-NHz5{7WZfAFQFB]F@gf}l9`XLs9(iD?D/! nafKE,S#G!4W/flj=9(U{]t'lP,,5~:s*~;kKR Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <3waagj1nen.fsf@news.eternal-september.org> (Richard Riley's message of "Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:53:52 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110016 (No Gnus v0.16) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-UCL-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the UCL Helpdesk, helpdesk@ucl.ac.uk for more information X-UCL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-UCL-MailScanner-From: e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:78085 Archived-At: Richard Riley writes: > Eric S Fraga writes: > >> Richard Riley 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. -- : Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.50.1 + No Gnus v0.16