From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/7236 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glyn Millington Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: jed -> gnus newbie Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 10:19:38 +0100 Organization: Utterly lacking Message-ID: <874q061711.fsf@nowhere.org> References: <87vesmz7d0.fsf@nowhere.org> <874q06ckyp.fsf@nothome.com> <87r73az1cx.fsf@nowhere.org> <87mzdy2m45.fsf@nothome.com> Reply-To: wistanswick@linuxmail.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1146739230 7443 80.91.229.2 (4 May 2006 10:40:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 10:40:30 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 04 12:40:28 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FbbFq-0007rP-5g for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 12:40:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FbbFp-00057W-9w for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 06:40:17 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 60 Original-X-Trace: individual.net IiV+JEl33pnbzRwfo9BgCwGHXPPPjRvdM31sm8U3A04Jz7xEHg X-Orig-Path: glynthebearded.millingtons.org!news X-Now-Playing: There's a deathly hush in the close tonight! X-Liturgical-Date: Weekday: Thursday of the Third Week of Easter, A.D. 2006 X-Shakespeare: "Had I but served my God with half the zeal I had served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies." -- King Henry VIII, III.2 (Cardinal Wolsey to Cromwell) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) XEmacs/21.4.19 (linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:gKgHVubq/Lj2nms4QKjKyslTVQA= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:77418 Original-To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:7236 Archived-At: notbob writes: > I getting more comfortable w/ gnus, but there's still some confusing > issues. Same here :-) > 1. How are the bizarre letter combinations for some functions > keyed? IOW, for gnus-article-treat-overstrike, the gnus manual shows > the letter combo 'W v'. I know this is for washing verbose, but I can > only do it using the menu. There are others like G P a, H v, J M-#, > etc. How are these keyed? IIUC separate keys are keyd separately, hyphenated keys are keyed simultaeneously W W h C-c C-c yes? > > 2. Note my 'Sender:' header. Where is emacs getting that variable? > How can I change/disable it? (defun system-name () "nowhere.org") > 3. Is it possible to logon to my NNTP server with ssh? Howzabout with > xemacs? > I believe so, but have never tried it! Have a look at section 6.1.3 of the manual. >> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki > > That reminds me. What's the command to go to a URL? ...and where do I > set a browser? http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/BrowsingUrlsInGnusArticle > How to change to root from user so I can do a quickie sysadmin. Or, > must I start emacs from root? Now for that you need Tramp http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/TrampMode hth Glyn