From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/6048 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steven L Baur Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Picking Nits (sgnus v0.79/tm7.52) Date: 25 Apr 1996 15:32:13 -0700 Sender: steve@miranova.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.52) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035146562 2361 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:42:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:42:42 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA04612 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 15:57:29 -0700 Original-Received: from deanna.miranova.com (steve@miranova.com [204.212.162.100]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 00:32:07 +0200 Original-Received: (from steve@localhost) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) id PAA04326; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 15:32:14 -0700 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no X-Url: http://www.miranova.com/%7Esteve/ Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Lines: 50 X-Mailer: September Gnus v0.79/XEmacs 19.14 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6048 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6048 For the most part, I like very much how September Gnus is shaping up. 1. Setting gnus-auto-center-summary to t (the default) produces bogus behavior on XEmacs 19.14 -- it warps the cursor off of the last article in the *Summary* buffer all too often. 2. I don't care for the sequence of events when one selects a mail response function. The subject prompt comes first, and the text is poorly worded -- it should just ask for a Subject:. The currently selected article then disappears. Very often I end up splitting the frame and putting the *Article ... buffer in the other window. This is what Gnus used to do, and I guess I miss it. The least you could do would be to make the *Article* buffer be the default target for C-X 4 b or C-X 5 b ... 3. The technique of manually splitting digest articles into another group would be O.K. but the defaults don't work right. Example: I have a group nnml:lnx-announce-digest, that gets filled with digests from the comp.os.linux.announce newsgroup. To use this group I C-d each digest, mark all the articles and then B c them into another group ``nnml:linux-announce''. The default destination for B c doesn't work at all the way I like. I don't mind having to type in a destination the first time, but I think Gnus should remember what I've typed the next time this operation is done. It's a nit, but it is starting to get on my nerves. 4. The major/minor modes in the status line need some cleaning up. I am seeing them start off with ``(Message MIME-Edit 7bit Filladapt ...'', and by the time the clickable (new XEmacs feature) minor modes are reached, they are truncated and unreachable :-(. I'm not sure what can be done, but MIME, auto fill and filladapt are strict necessities. Truncation doesn't really matter when the Status bar is only informational (Emacs, XEmacs 19.13), but it does matter when the minor modes become clickable buttons as in XEmacs 19.14. 5. Message mode definitely needs a customized toolbar. The default XEmacs one with buttons for Mail (pointing to vm) and News (pointing to Gnus) is mostly pointless and distracting. 6. Marking articles and then running X u has a conflict with Tm and inline image display that I haven't figured out how to defeat yet. I only want to see inline images if I select a single article for viewing. In mass operations off the X keymap, I just want the decoding to occur and nothing else. -- steve@miranova.com baur Unsolicited commercial e-mail will be proofread for $250/hour. Andrea Seastrand: For your vote on the Telecom bill, I will vote for anyone except you in November.