From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/6802 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: miscellaneous Gnus questions Date: 19 Jun 1996 08:21:26 +0200 Sender: larsi@ifi.uio.no Message-ID: References: <199606182330.TAA27541@csb.bu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035147204 4775 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:53:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:53:24 +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 (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id EAA30425 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 04:48:28 -0700 Original-Received: from aegir.ifi.uio.no (4867@aegir.ifi.uio.no [129.240.94.24]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 12:58:36 +0200 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by aegir.ifi.uio.no ; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 12:58:36 +0200 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: jbw@cs.bu.edu's message of Tue, 18 Jun 1996 19:30:54 -0400 Original-Lines: 73 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.20/Emacs 19.29 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6802 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6802 jbw@cs.bu.edu (Joe Wells) writes: > 1. What keys/command do I use to re-scan all groups from a particular > server? (For example, I want to rescan all of my nnml groups without > rescanning any nntp or nndir groups.) I know there are commands to (1) > re-scan all groups on a particular level and (2) re-scan a particular > group (does this ever affect other groups?), but that is not what I > want. There is no command to re-scan a particular server. `(gnus-request-scan SERVER)' will do that for you. Perhaps there should be a command as well? > 2. What is the difference between gnus-subscribe-alphabetically and > gnus-subscribe-hierarchically? I have read the documentation and > looked at the source code yet clarity eludes me. You and me both. This is definitely a function that has survived unscathed from GNUS 4.1: (defun gnus-subscribe-hierarchically (newgroup) "Subscribe new NEWSGROUP and insert it in hierarchical newsgroup order." ;; Basic ideas by mike-w@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Mike Williams) (save-excursion (set-buffer (find-file-noselect gnus-current-startup-file)) (let ((groupkey newgroup) before) (while (and (not before) groupkey) (goto-char (point-min)) (let ((groupkey-re (concat "^\\(" (regexp-quote groupkey) ".*\\)[!:]"))) (while (and (re-search-forward groupkey-re nil t) (progn (setq before (match-string 1)) (string< before newgroup))))) ;; Remove tail of newsgroup name (eg. a.b.c -> a.b) (setq groupkey (if (string-match "^\\(.*\\)\\.[^.]+$" groupkey) (substring groupkey (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1))))) (gnus-subscribe-newsgroup newgroup before)))) Uhm. What does it do? > 3. How do I arrange for articles to be marked as expirable from a score > file without affecting the treatment of articles by ordinary reading? You can't do that. > 4. How do I arrange for score-file changes to be specified by a score > file? What I want to do is completely wipe out all trace of the > existence of a particular person. Score on "followup". > 5. For mail groups, the "%R" format spec for gnus-group-line-format counts > all messages that have ever existed in the group, including those which > have been destroyed by the "B DEL" command. The information it uses > seems to come from the active file. Is there some way to get an > accurate count of the *existing* read messages from the "%R" format > spec? Nope. This is on the Red Gnus todo list, though. > 6. In the summary buffer, what is difference between "M P b" and "M P a"? > They seem to do the same thing and the documentation strings (from "C-h > k") are not enlightening. `M P a' marks all articles in "series" order while `M P b' marks all articles in the order they appear in the buffer. -- "Yes. The journey through the human heart would have to wait until some other time."