From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/17509 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glyn Millington Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Standard way to use Gnus? Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 07:05:08 +0000 Organization: Utterly lacking Message-ID: <878uesi1y3.fsf@nowhere.org> References: <86619zgu9f.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: glyn.millington@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1426837060 28999 80.91.229.3 (20 Mar 2015 07:37:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 07:37:40 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 20 08:37:32 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YYrUn-0007tA-HO for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2015 08:37:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42652 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YYrUm-0004pG-PG for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2015 03:37:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35781) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YYrUk-0004p8-6M for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2015 03:37:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YYrUg-0003SY-62 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2015 03:37:26 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:51883) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YYrUf-0003SO-VR for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2015 03:37:22 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YYrUV-0007aV-Ub for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2015 08:37:12 +0100 Original-Received: from cust25-dsl91-135-3.idnet.net ([91.135.3.25]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 2015 08:37:11 +0100 Original-Received: from glyn.millington by cust25-dsl91-135-3.idnet.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 2015 08:37:11 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cust25-dsl91-135-3.idnet.net X-Liturgical-Date: Weekday: Friday of the Fourth Week of Lent, A.D. 2015 X-Shakespeare: "To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?" -- Hamlet, III.1 User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:dTXYeWi7c1wLa+ctoa5c1+1S8Dg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:17509 Archived-At: David Masterson writes: > I'm sure everyone has there own preferences on how to use Gnus -- that's > the essense of Emacs, after all. However, it's always instructive to > learn from others and find new methods of using such a powerful tool. > I've been around Emacs & Gnus for more 30 years (yes, I believe I used > GNUS when it was written for TECO/Emacs), but I was never an expert in > its usage. I still tend to just basically C-n & Space through the > Summary buffer to read what I'm interested in and never really sat down > to figure out the more advanced tools in Gnus. > > I'm now a little more curious. The Gnus manual in Emacs is written as a > reference manual and covers a lot of complicated topics, but not in a > manner of taking the novice to an expert level step by step. I'm > looking for more on why each of the pieces of Gnus exist and examples of > why I might want to use them. Is there such a manual around somewhere? In a word, no! I have found that the best way to learn is to look at the configuration used by others and see what use they make of Gnus' amazing flexibility. What kind of use are you curious about? Do you use Gnus for mail or just as a newsreader? RSS feeds? Mailing lists? Are you using pop or imap? Scoring/killing posts? A few clues about possible directions of travel/interest might elicit more help! atb Glyn