Hierarchic view of active file

Hierarchic view of active file

[Roman Belenov]

Is it possible to view active file hierarchically ? It's not
convenient to browse flat list of 20000+ newsgroups.

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Re: Hierarchic view of active file

[François Pinard]

Roman Belenov <roman@nstl.nnov.ru> writes:

> Is it possible to view active file hierarchically ?  It's not
> convenient to browse flat list of 20000+ newsgroups.

It might be a useful feature (and surely a very good exercise :-) to
write an `active' mode for Emacs, that would suit especially well in
the Gnus package.  It could also give access the the group descriptions.
It could use Outline minor mode, after suitable buffer preparation.

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Re: Hierarchic view of active file

[Andi Hechtbauer]

Roman Belenov <roman@nstl.nnov.ru> writes:

> Is it possible to view active file hierarchically ? It's not
> convenient to browse flat list of 20000+ newsgroups.

does A T (gnus-topic-list-active) do what you want?

HTH,
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Re: Hierarchic view of active file

[Roman Belenov]

Andi Hechtbauer <anti@spin.de> writes:

> Roman Belenov <roman@nstl.nnov.ru> writes:
> 
> > Is it possible to view active file hierarchically ? It's not
> > convenient to browse flat list of 20000+ newsgroups.
> 
> does A T (gnus-topic-list-active) do what you want?

It gave me the same plain list, although it took several minutes to
complete.

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Re: Hierarchic view of active file

[François Pinard]

Andi Hechtbauer <anti@spin.de> writes:

> Roman Belenov <roman@nstl.nnov.ru> writes:

> > Is it possible to view active file hierarchically ? It's not
> > convenient to browse flat list of 20000+ newsgroups.

> does A T (gnus-topic-list-active) do what you want?

Wow!! :-)

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François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard

Re: Hierarchic view of active file

[Andi Hechtbauer]

Roman Belenov <roman@nstl.nnov.ru> writes:

> Andi Hechtbauer <anti@spin.de> writes:
> 
> > Roman Belenov <roman@nstl.nnov.ru> writes:
> > 
> > > Is it possible to view active file hierarchically ? It's not
> > > convenient to browse flat list of 20000+ newsgroups.
> > 
> > does A T (gnus-topic-list-active) do what you want?
> 
> It gave me the same plain list, although it took several minutes to
> complete.

Maybe you need to toggle topic-mode `t' - I can't check right now...

Does this do the trick?

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Re: Hierarchic view of active file

[François Pinard]

Andi Hechtbauer <anti@spin.de> writes:

> Roman Belenov <roman@nstl.nnov.ru> writes:

> > Andi Hechtbauer <anti@spin.de> writes:
> > 
> > > Roman Belenov <roman@nstl.nnov.ru> writes:
> > > 
> > > > Is it possible to view active file hierarchically ? It's not
> > > > convenient to browse flat list of 20000+ newsgroups.
> > > 
> > > does A T (gnus-topic-list-active) do what you want?
> > 
> > It gave me the same plain list, although it took several minutes to
> > complete.

> Maybe you need to toggle topic-mode `t' - I can't check right now...

> Does this do the trick?

For the record, I almost use Topics group mode, and maybe that' why I
immediately got a nice "topicized" display.  Could we consider it a Gnus
bug if `A T' does not trigger a topicised display?

My active list, here, is rather short (at least compare to what Usenet
provides), only a few hundreds of mailgroups essentially.  Maybe `A T'
would be an heavy beast given tens of thousands of groups.  I can't check
either right now :-).

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Re: Hierarchic view of active file

[Roman Belenov]

Andi Hechtbauer <anti@spin.de> writes:

> Maybe you need to toggle topic-mode `t' - I can't check right now...
> 
> Does this do the trick?

No, it only change the "topicness" of my mail groups. Note that nntp
is the secondary select method for me - does it matter ?

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