From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/5177 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: how do you subscribe to new groups if I don't save-killed Date: 21 Feb 1996 00:05:51 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway Sender: larsi@ifi.uio.no Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035145819 32057 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:30:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:30:19 +0000 (UTC) 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 PAA04906 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 15:35:34 -0800 Original-Received: from eistla.ifi.uio.no (4867@eistla.ifi.uio.no [129.240.94.29]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 00:05:52 +0100 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by eistla.ifi.uio.no ; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 00:05:52 +0100 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: gsstark@MIT.EDU's message of 20 Feb 1996 09:58:26 -0500 Original-Lines: 21 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5177 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5177 gsstark@MIT.EDU (Greg Stark) writes: > I'm not sure I understand what's going here, i think that if I have have: > gnus-save-killed-list nil > gnus-check-new-newsgroups 'ask-server > > then Gnus doesn't know about any killed groups so when i use `j' or > `U' it completes to just the groups I am subscribed to or are zombie > groups. I'm not sure the value of check-new-newsgroups is relevant, > but I think save-killed-list is. Well, the "solution" is to set `gnus-read-active-file' to t. This will make startup slower, though. One way or another, Gnus has to know what groups are available. Either it must save the list of killed groups, or it must read the active file if you want to be able to do this sort of thing. -- "Yes. The journey through the human heart would have to wait until some other time."