Re: how do you subscribe to new groups if I don't save-killed

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>]

gsstark@MIT.EDU (Greg Stark) writes:

> Well I would like to subscribe to a bunch of newsgroups; 
> say i've taken a sudden interest in comp.lang newsgroups.  
> I want to hit 9Amcomp.lang and then just subscribe and kill
> groups as desired.  
> 
> Currently i can do that if I have some settings of -SAVE-KILLED 
> and -READ-ACTIVE-FILE, but i don't know which combinations.  
> And if it doesn't start with enough information, even commands
> like -FIND-NEW-NEWSGROUPS won't make it start working.
> 
> This seems inconsistent and undesirable.  I admit doing LIST-ACTIVE seemed
> really slow, i guess active-file parsing is one place to look for speed
> optimizations.

No, parsing the active file is quite fast.  Reading it is *slow*; it's
typically ~300kb long.  

`A m' lists groups on various levels, and groups that aren't
subscribed, zombies, killed or unsubscribed aren't on any levels.
Perhaps we should add a level 10 for these groups?  `1 0 A m' would
then work as one would suppose.

On the other hand, one could just add a regexp parameter to
`gnus-group-list-active' -- `A A'.  `C-u A A comp.lang RET' would then
do the trick.  I've added this to the Red Gnus todo list.

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  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen