From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/5679 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: how do you subscribe to new groups if I don't save-killed Date: 24 Mar 1996 00:34:56 +0000 Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway Sender: larsi@ifi.uio.no Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035146249 1043 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:37:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:37:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen , ding@ifi.uio.no Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA00203 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 1996 16:57:11 -0800 Original-Received: from ylfing.ifi.uio.no (4867@ylfing.ifi.uio.no [129.240.94.25]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id ; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 01:34:59 +0100 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by ylfing.ifi.uio.no ; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 01:34:59 +0100 Original-To: gsstark@MIT.EDU (Greg Stark) In-Reply-To: gsstark@MIT.EDU's message of 18 Mar 1996 22:34:12 -0500 Original-Lines: 31 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5679 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5679 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. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen