Re: Standard way to use Gnus?

[Glyn Millington <glyn.millington@gmail.com>]

David Masterson <dsmasterson@gmail.com> writes:

> Glyn Millington <glyn.millington@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 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!
>
> In a word -- maybe.  I was deliberately open-ended because I really
> haven't used these items with Gnus and I wanted to see if there was a
> manual to lead you thru these things with examples.  My off-the-cuff
> directions might be:
>
> 1. Finding and reading newsgroups
> 2. Scoring/killing to reduce noise
> 3. Mail reading (POP/IMAP)
> 4. Mailing list management
> 5. Advanced message conversion (GIFs, PSs, etc.)
> 6. Tricks (username icons, etc.)

Well there is the Gnus tutorial here:

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusTutorial#toc1

It is rather old now but should get you started.

You can find guidance on most of the above on the Emacs wiki too

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryGnus


>
> Some in-depth .emacs examples would be good.

I have found these helpful - in no special order -

http://www.esperi.org.uk/~nix/xemacs/personal/personal.html

http://bzg.fr/emacs.html

https://github.com/jwiegley/dot-emacs

http://sachachua.com/blog/tag/gnus/#post-4905

atb


Glyn