Re: Song of Programming

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> 
> > OOPs ... F does do something usefull when unplugged, but what does "g"
> > do when unplugged.
> 
> The same as when it's plugged -- it reads the active file and stuff.
> Of course, if you only update the Agent active file from the same Gnus 
> that you're reading unplugged, there won't be anything new in there,
> but I use a separate Gnus to fetch news/mail from the one I read in.
> The one I read news in is always unplugged.

I sense that I'm missing out on some nice functionality. How does the
updated active file, new messages etc get to the unplugged
version. Probably something obvious but I've experimented a few times
with 2 running instances of gnus, also with M-x gnus-slave but must
have missed out on the right technique.

Might be a good idea if some of you old (young) hands spelled out some
of your cool tricks for us new (old) hands when time permits.