From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/11157 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Greg Stark Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: activation levels, prefix args, higher level groups Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 20:40:26 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035150915 28648 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:55:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:55:15 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from sandy.calag.com (root@sandy [206.190.83.128]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA29251 for ; Wed, 28 May 1997 18:52:19 -0700 Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by sandy.calag.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA32195 for ; Wed, 28 May 1997 18:52:11 -0700 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA21589 for ; Wed, 28 May 1997 20:51:29 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Thu, 29 May 1997 02:40:37 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 3135 invoked by uid 504); 29 May 1997 00:40:36 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 3132 invoked from network); 29 May 1997 00:40:34 -0000 Original-Received: from g63-99.citenet.net (brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu@207.183.47.99) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 29 May 1997 00:40:34 -0000 Original-Received: by g63-99.citenet.net id m0wWtGU-0008eZC (Debian Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2); Wed, 28 May 1997 20:40:26 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 18 Original-Xref: altair.xemacs.org dgnus-list:1547 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11157 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11157 I'm still trying to get 4 g or 4 M-x gnus to do what i want. 4 g doesn't seem to do anything different from g, and 4 M-x gnus seems to cause nntp to read the whole active file even though i have gnus-read-active-file set to nil. below is the documentatino for M-x gnus, which seems to be wholly unrelated to either what i expected it to do, or what it actually seems to do. >gnus: an interactive compiled Lisp function in `gnus'. >(gnus &optional ARG DONT-CONNECT SLAVE) > >Read network news. >If ARG is non-nil and a positive number, Gnus will use that as the >startup level. If ARG is non-nil and not a positive number, Gnus will >prompt the user for the name of an NNTP server to use.