Re: the stars in the group buffer.

["Adam Sjøgren" <asjo@koldfront.dk>]

Eric writes:

> On Tuesday, 11 Sep 2018 at 14:34, Uwe Brauer wrote:
>>
>> I forgot to ask this a long time ago: in my group buffer I see
>> *              0: nnimap+gmail:INBOX
>>
>> What does the * mean and how can I get rid of it?
>
> In my experience, it means that you are visiting that group already
> (there's a summary buffer for it).

If that is the case, you must have customized the meaning of '*' in the
*Group* buffer:

  "2.1.1 Group Line Specification

  The default format of the group buffer is nice and dull, but you can
  make it as exciting and ugly as you feel like.

  Here’s a couple of example group lines:

       25: news.announce.newusers
   *    0: alt.fan.andrea-dworkin

  Quite simple, huh?

  You can see that there are 25 unread articles in
  ‘news.announce.newusers’. There are no unread articles, but some
  ticked articles, in ‘alt.fan.andrea-dworkin’ (see that little asterisk
  at the beginning of the line?)."

   - http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_12.html#Group-Buffer-Format


  Best regards,

    Adam

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