From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/23136 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: a few questions about the agent Date: 11 Jun 1999 16:20:06 -0700 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87zp26k367.fsf@chow.mat.jhu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035160925 408 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:42:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:42:05 +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 TAA27986 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 19:21:00 -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 SAB04952; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 18:20:31 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 11 Jun 1999 18:21:17 -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 SAA03673 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 18:21:07 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mail.networkone.net (qmailr@mail.networkone.net [209.144.112.75]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA27948 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 19:20:11 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (qmail 31159 invoked from network); 11 Jun 1999 23:21:03 -0000 Original-Received: from pm3-1-21.la.networkone.net (HELO satellite.local.lan) (reader@209.144.126.21) by mail.networkone.net with SMTP; 11 Jun 1999 23:21:03 -0000 Original-Received: (from reader@localhost) by satellite.local.lan (8.9.1/8.9.1) id QAA00903; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 16:20:06 -0700 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Dan Christensen's message of "Fri, 11 Jun 1999 14:22:40 -0400" Original-Lines: 33 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070083 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.83) Emacs/20.3 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23136 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23136 Dan Christensen writes: > I've just started using the agent with pgnus-0.84 and have a few > questions. > > 3) When I'm in a rush, or only have access to an expensive connection, > I only want the agent to download headers and articles for the groups > I think are most important. I thought maybe I could create a category > called "important", which lists the important groups, and have the > rest be in the default category. But if I do this, how do I tell the > agent which categories I want it to use for this particular session? > I guess I could change the predicate in default category to false when > I only want to see important articles, but that seems a bit awkward. > I also thought of adjusting gnus-agent-handle-level up and down as > appropriate, but again this is awkward, and I already use levels to > indicate other information. Any other ideas? I hope someone proves me wrong but I don't think there is a way to handily and quickly rearrange agent categories in the way you describe. I think we need an all inclusive interface in `J c' that allows one to edit all aspects of the category at one time. It would also be nice (maybe already possible ) to see agent information in group buffer such as a mark of somekind indicating which groups are in which categories. That said, there is the mechanical way of creating a file called tmp.categories that contains the setup you want for downloading when in a hurry. And creating a backup of your normal News/agent/lib/categories called categories.bak then copy tmp.categories to News/agent/lib/categories when in a hurry. Copy categories.bak to News/agent/lib/categores when in normal mode. Not sure what kind of hell this may raise with other files though.