Re: a couple of newbie questions with gnus

[Martin Jørgensen]

Johan Bockgård wrote:
> Martin Jørgensen <unoder.spam@spam.jay.net> writes:
>
>
> > It didn't show me the messages anymore, but it instead it showed an
> > "G." to the left, instead of the usual "R." (for read I suppose).
>
>
> The message has been removed from the server.

I find that difficult to believe that, as I'm running leafnode which 
should get whatever messages it can from my news-server and then I don't 
think it should ever remove messages before after about 10/20/30 days or 
something... That's why I have:

(setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "192.168.1.100"))

I never tried that any messages was removed from my leafnode server: 
192.168.1.100. How can that be?

> > 2) Another newbie question: What does that star mean in front of the
> > group-name in the "*Group*"-buffer? Like here:
> >
> > 6119: comp.lang.c
> >   46:*gnu.emacs.gnus
>
>
> ,----
> | gnus-group-line-format is a variable defined in `gnus-group.el'.
> | Its value is 
> | "%M%S%p%P%5y:%B%(%g%)%O\n"
> | 
> | Documentation:
> | *Format of group lines.
> | It works along the same lines as a normal formatting string,
> | with some simple extensions.
> | 
> | [...]
> | 
> | %B    Whether a summary buffer for the group is open (char, "*")
> `----

I don't understand any of that. What did that star '*' between the "46" 
and "gnu.emacs.gnus" mean again?


Best regards / Med venlig hilsen
Martin Jørgensen

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