From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/23345 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Epprecht Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Agent startup (how it works) Date: 15 Jun 1999 23:04:31 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035161094 1463 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:44:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:44:54 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA10555 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 22:48:49 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAB20786; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 21:48:17 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 15 Jun 1999 21:48:36 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA04690 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 21:48:24 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mail.sunweb.ch ([195.141.237.254]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA10483 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 22:47:26 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from pc.sunweb.ch [195.141.237.48] by mail.sunweb.ch with ESMTP (SMTPD32-4.03) id AFE72560184; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 04:45:59 +03d00 Original-Received: (from epprecht@localhost) by pc.sunweb.ch (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA01033; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 23:04:31 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "14 Jun 1999 23:35:00 +0200" Original-Lines: 29 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/Emacs 20.2 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23345 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23345 Good hint, Kai, like this it *does* work: (still using Gnus v5.6.45 GNU Emacs 20.3.1 in a fresh Linux account) ;; =========== .emacs (require 'gnus-agent) ;; =========== .gnus.el (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.sunrise.ch")) I go online, start emacs, M-x gnus RET, Gnus reads the active file. I quit Gnus, put (gnus-agentize) at the end of .gnus.el M-x gnus (still online) and bingo! Wow, it's so simple! (-; if you know how ;-) (It's the first time I managed to startup a new agent without having to make the directories by hand.) Like Lars said have most of us forgotten how difficult it was until the agent started working. So either the documentation should be written more clear (cookbook) or the agents startup behavior should be improved, or even better, both ;-) And BTW speaking about the documentation: The node '* Agent Basics::' is very helpful for beginners, but does forget to mention thet you have to do 'g' before `J s' I remember like I had difficulties with this one... Robert Epprecht