From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/18069 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: [GNUS] Displaying available news-groups, sorted by name Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 02:50:26 +0100 Message-ID: <87egchnztp.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87y4apk8hs.fsf@santoro.tk> 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 1455328258 12559 80.91.229.3 (13 Feb 2016 01:50:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 01:50:58 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 13 02:50:46 2016 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 1aUPME-0007J6-CE for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2016 02:50:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38097 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aUPMD-0000kM-MR for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2016 20:50:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44680) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aUPMA-0000kF-Lo for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2016 20:50:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aUPM7-0007eE-Fw for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2016 20:50:42 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:55492) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aUPM7-0007e2-0x for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2016 20:50:39 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aUPM4-0007Cg-Gb for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2016 02:50:36 +0100 Original-Received: from nl106-137-227.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.227]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 13 Feb 2016 02:50:36 +0100 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-227.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 13 Feb 2016 02:50:36 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-Lines: 35 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-227.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:oLL5pI2talkuBeXXo8KJV3uUvIw= 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:18069 Archived-At: Emanuele Santoro writes: > I recently configured Gnus on GNU Emacs 24.4.1 as > newsreader. In order to subscribe to newsgroups, > I type M-d, bound to the > gnus-group-describe-all-groups. > > The problem is that newsgroups shown are not sorted > by name, making quite anooying to browse. Speaking of "browse", another option is to, in the Group buffer, do `gnus-group-enter-server-mode', then find your server for news (e.g., news.gmane.org), and hit RET. Here is a screenshot what it can look like: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/pics/gnus-server-color.png I write "can" because to get the font lock, use the font stuff in this file: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/conf/emacs-init/gnus/browse.el But to get the *sorting*, you don't have to do anything! > Please note that I am not an expert Lisp programmer > nor an expert GNU Emacs user. Who is? :) -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573