From: Tassilo Horn <heimdall@uni-koblenz.de>
Subject: Re: a couple of newbie questions with gnus
Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 18:16:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mzd22khi.fsf@baldur.nicundtas.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2qrok3-9g4.ln1@news.tdc.dk>
unoder.spam@spam.jay.net (Martin Jørgensen) writes:
Hi Martin,
>> One of which is that you poste too long lines, right?
>
> It doesn't annoy me and nobody complained until now. Is it a problem?
> Because I assumed that most usenet-clients just wrap long lines so
> they don't see any problem at all?
The problem is that quoting is harder to do (for inferior newsreaders
than Gnus). So it's more or less a common rule to wrap lines statically
at 72 columns.
> Ok, thanks. Suppose I want to outcomment something, should I then use
> ";;" in front of each line?
Yes, but the number of semicolon is not important. (It merely affects
indentation.)
> 1) Currently I use this "aquamacs emacs" since it was shipped with
> auctex and previewtex and I don't know how to setup that from a "clean
> emacs". So it constantly opens stupid windows that I can't "C-x o"
> between.... I have to mouse-click them to select them... Annoying.
To switch between "Frames" (thats emacsian for Windows in sense of
window manager units) use `C-x 5 o'.
BTW: I've heard that Aquamacs is not that good. At least it's a
de-emacsified emacs. So probably you want to switch to yaced [1].
> 2) If I try open gnus from "yaced emacs" I get this:
Oh, I see you tried yaced. :)
> Loading help-fns...done
> Loading gnus-start...done
> Loading gnus-agent...done
> Wrote /Users/mac/.newsrc-dribble
> Gnus auto-save file exists. Do you want to read it? (y or n)
> Reading /Users/mac/.newsrc.eld...
> Reading active file from 192.168.1.134 via nntp...
> Loading timezone...done
> No new newsgroups
> Checking new news...
> byte-code: gnus-agent-read-agentview no longer supports version 1.
> Stop gnus, manually evaluate
> gnus-agent-convert-to-compressed-agentview, then restart gnus.
>
> Anyone know what that's about?
When the error happens, do
`M-x gnus-agent-convert-to-compressed-agentview'
and restart Gnus.
> 3) In mozilla thunderbird I enabled this option "Only show threads
> with new postings" so it'll automatically show the whole thread *only
> if* there are new replies in that thread. Threads where everything is
> read won't be shown...
>
> This is really nice - is it possible to do something with gnus?
Sure, that's the default. Did you set gnus-fetch-old-headers to
anything?
> 4) What's this ~/.newsrc-dribble file doing?
It saves what you've read, scores and such. When you exit Gnus, this
file will somehow be merged into .newsrc.eld. If Gnus/Emacs crashes,
then it will be used to recover your session.
Bye,
Tassilo
Footnotes:
[1] http://yaced.sourceforge.net/
--
"Emacs is not a development tool but a way of life."
- David Kastrup in alt.religion.emacs -
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-28 16:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-23 16:28 Martin Jørgensen
2006-05-23 16:57 ` David Z Maze
2006-05-24 23:05 ` Martin Jørgensen
2006-05-25 8:46 ` Alexander Ponomarenko
2006-05-25 15:03 ` Martin Jørgensen
2006-05-25 15:38 ` Malte Spiess
2006-05-25 23:06 ` Martin Jørgensen
2006-05-26 6:24 ` Malte Spiess
2006-05-26 15:20 ` Martin Jørgensen
2006-05-26 17:47 ` Tassilo Horn
[not found] ` <mailman.2324.1148665716.9609.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2006-05-26 18:29 ` Karl Kleinpaste
2006-05-26 19:28 ` Martin Jørgensen
2006-05-26 20:32 ` Reiner Steib
2006-05-27 1:16 ` Martin Jørgensen
2006-05-28 9:19 ` Tassilo Horn
[not found] ` <mailman.2366.1148808000.9609.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2006-05-28 15:22 ` Martin Jørgensen
2006-05-28 16:16 ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
2006-05-28 16:38 ` Reiner Steib
2006-05-28 17:05 ` David Kastrup
2006-05-30 14:01 ` Reiner Steib
2006-05-30 15:33 ` David Kastrup
2006-05-31 22:35 ` Martin Jørgensen
2006-06-01 8:02 ` David Kastrup
2006-06-05 13:15 ` david.reitter
2006-06-15 13:55 ` Aking TIAN
2006-05-29 9:23 ` Reiner Steib
[not found] ` <mailman.2368.1148833009.9609.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2006-05-29 18:13 ` Martin Jørgensen
2006-05-29 22:22 ` Reiner Steib
2006-05-31 2:18 ` Martin Jørgensen
2006-05-31 8:13 ` Reiner Steib
2006-05-31 22:56 ` Martin Jørgensen
2006-05-30 17:45 ` Tassilo Horn
[not found] ` <mailman.2439.1149011220.9609.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2006-05-31 3:10 ` Martin Jørgensen
2006-05-23 22:02 ` Johan Bockgård
2006-05-24 23:08 ` Martin Jørgensen
2006-05-24 11:12 ` Alexander Ponomarenko
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