gnus-group-get-new-news for this one group

gnus-group-get-new-news for this one group

[jidanni]

g runs the command gnus-group-get-new-news

Which is however very inflexible. You see at the moment I'm just
interested in the vegiburger group. Why should I have to barf down all
data on all the other groups I'm subscribed to? I already read them,
and now I just want to see if there's anything new in the vegiburger
group in the last few minutes.

I would like to do "1 g" meaning "just do g on the next 1 groups", but
that ARG is already for something else.

> Just put the vegiburger group on a lower numbered level (S l runs the
> command gnus-group-set-current-level) then use g ARG.

What a lot of trouble just for a quick one-time get on one group.

Re: gnus-group-get-new-news for this one group

[Steven E. Harris]

jidanni@jidanni.org writes:

> I would like to do "1 g" meaning "just do g on the next 1 groups", but
> that ARG is already for something else.

What about M-g?

,----
| M-g runs `gnus-topic-get-new-news-this-topic'
`----

When sitting on a group rather than a topic, it applies the operation to
that group only.

-- 
Steven E. Harris

Re: gnus-group-get-new-news for this one group

[jidanni]

SEH> What about M-g?
SEH> ,----
SEH> | M-g runs `gnus-topic-get-new-news-this-topic'
SEH> `----
You mean M-g runs the command gnus-group-get-new-news-this-group...
And it's exactly what I want!

Ah, yes there it is right on (info "(gnus)Scanning New Messages"), but
not mentioned at all in the (g runs the command)
gnus-group-get-new-news docstring. The g and M-g docstrings should
mention each other, next time we lesser users can find it easier.

Re: gnus-group-get-new-news for this one group

[Didier Verna]

jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:

> SEH> What about M-g?
> SEH> ,----
> SEH> | M-g runs `gnus-topic-get-new-news-this-topic'
> SEH> `----
> You mean M-g runs the command gnus-group-get-new-news-this-group...
> And it's exactly what I want!
>
> Ah, yes there it is right on (info "(gnus)Scanning New Messages"), but
> not mentioned at all in the (g runs the command)
> gnus-group-get-new-news docstring. The g and M-g docstrings should
> mention each other, next time we lesser users can find it easier.

  M-g also has a very nice side effect: I have some nntp server
accessible via an ssh tunnel which sometimes has connection problems, so
I frequently end up with a "denied" server.

Hitting g in the group buffer skips denied servers. I would then have to
go to the server buffer, close and then reopen the denied server.
However, you can just move to one of this server's groups, and hit M-g
there. This will magically reopen the server in question.


There is still one deficiency related to M-g, which is actually more of
a global misdesign. I would like mails sources to be treated
independently from each other, and be able to open/close/deny individual
mail sources. This way I could also M-g on some mail groups and for
instance just get mail from my local server without trying to reopen
that currently unreachable pop account... unfortunately, that is not
possible.

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Re: gnus-group-get-new-news for this one group

[Steinar Bang]

>>>>> Didier Verna <didier@xemacs.org>:

>   M-g also has a very nice side effect: I have some nntp server
> accessible via an ssh tunnel which sometimes has connection problems,
> so I frequently end up with a "denied" server.

> Hitting g in the group buffer skips denied servers. I would then have
> to go to the server buffer, close and then reopen the denied server.
> However, you can just move to one of this server's groups, and hit M-g
> there. This will magically reopen the server in question.

Also M-g on a group can sometimes show some new articles that a plain g
doesn't make show up.  I've seen this happen for years, but I've never
gotten around to investigate why.