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Re: gnus download newsrc?
From: |
E. Hoffmann |
Subject: |
Re: gnus download newsrc? |
Date: |
Tue, 04 May 2010 15:43:48 -0000 |
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Andreas Politz schrieb:
> "E. Hoffmann" <erichhoffmann@gmx.de> writes:
>
>> Ted Zlatanov schrieb:
>>
>>> On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:40:43 +0200 Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> AP> "E. Hoffmann" <erichhoffmann@gmx.de> writes:
>>>>> I tried using emacs gnus newsreader. Contact with my newsserver
>> including
>>>>> authinfo works fine, but I just get 4 newsgroups. Gnus creates
.newsrc-
>>>>> dribble. I must have a blind spot, I don't find how to download a
full
>> list
>>>>> of available newsgroup from my server. gnus-activate-new-groups won't
>> show
>>>>> up anything, neiter does A z nor A k.
>>>>>
>>>>> Excuse me if this is a too trivial question. How do I download a full
>> list
>>>>> of newsgroups?
>>>
>>> AP> In the *Groups* buffer press '^'. This brings up the server buffer.
>> Now
>>> AP> locate your news-server and press 'RET'.
>>>
>>> AP> Subscribe to groups you want to read with 'u'.
>>>
>>> AP> 2 times 'q' and they should pop up in your *Groups* buffer.
>>>
>>> AP> Why does this have to be so painful, you ask ? I don't know.
>>>
>>> Should the manual in (gnus) Finding the News mention this perhaps?
>>> Right now it only talks about foreign groups but doesn't mention `^'
>>> which turns out to be essential.
>>>
>>
>> This could be of great help, for there I looked and didn't find it.
>>
>> erch
>>
>>> Ted
>
> I was just remembered, how much time I needed, to figure this out.
>
> BTW, while you're in the server-buffer, you may want to enable the
> agent, in order to cache the news header.
>
> -ap
Good. Done. Thanks. Erch