From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/17502 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Standard way to use Gnus? Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 20:59:11 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87lhiuvzzk.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <86619zgu9f.fsf@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 1426708809 9010 80.91.229.3 (18 Mar 2015 20:00:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 20:00:09 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 18 21:00:07 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 1YYK8M-0001J9-B7 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2015 21:00:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35565 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YYK8L-0003kK-KE for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2015 16:00:05 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 36 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: feB02bRejf23rfBm51Mt7Q.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:prANPQEoruaavGNMW9vs3SJjIhM= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:88630 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:17502 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? I don't know, but I would like to read it, if you find it. Generally though it is better to put the question like this: what would you like to do? Or: what are you doing, that you would like to do in another way? what are you doing that you don't want to do? etc. If you just want to be a more advanced user all over the board, then indeed the reference manual should keep you busy years to come :) -- underground experts united