gnus

gnus

[Michael Graff]

Greetings.

It would be so nice that for foreign nntp servers it were possible to say
``don't check the active file, just this one group''

The command to look for new groups could still fetch the file, but the
day to day reading shouldn't need to fetch the whole file.

One group -- yes, only one -- is on the other end of a slow pipe.

--Michael

Re: gnus

[Sudish Joseph]

In article <v6g25lhh1q.fsf@kechara.flame.org>,
Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org> writes:
> It would be so nice that for foreign nntp servers it were possible to say
> ``don't check the active file, just this one group''

> The command to look for new groups could still fetch the file, but the
> day to day reading shouldn't need to fetch the whole file.

> One group -- yes, only one -- is on the other end of a slow pipe.

Group levels are perfect for this.  Set that group to level 5
(assuming you have your normal groups at 3) and start gnus with
something like this:

(defun sj/gnus (&optional level)
  "Wrapper for gnus.  Uses level 3 by default."
  (interactive "P")
  (gnus (or level 3)))
(defun sj/gnus-just-mail (&optional level)
  "Start gnus at level 2.  Ie., just mail groups."
  (interactive "P")
  (gnus (or level 2)))
(global-set-key "\C-cn" 'sj/gnus)
(global-set-key "\C-cN" 'sj/gnus-just-mail)

Levels are very useful over slow links.  You can set rarely read
groups to higher levels to speed startup and use M-g to refresh them
when you do wish to visit them.

-Sudish

Re: GNUS...

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Per Persson <pp@swip.net> writes:

> Is someone currently hacking on this?

Not that I know of.

> My guess is that it should be a part of the Group Parameters
> thingiebob now, no? This seems like the most sensible thing to me. 

I guess...

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen

Re: GNUS...

[Per Persson]

gnus-bug@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen) writes:

> > Why did you people strip out gnus-postings-styles from GNUS? It was
> > the single most useful thing, I thought, in GNUS.
> 
> It'll make its return in the next version of Gnus.

Is someone currently hacking on this? If not, I think I'm interested
in doing it myself (it's a function I want, so damn if it doesn't work
they way I want it to. ;-)

My guess is that it should be a part of the Group Parameters
thingiebob now, no? This seems like the most sensible thing to me. 

--pp
http://sno.pp.se/~pp/